William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil ...

Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

He’s the most performed playwright in history. But which of William Shakespeare’s plays do twenty-first century Brits actually like the most? Back in 2016, we marked the celebrations around ...

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

(Teddy Spenser used this speech to audition for us and we cast him in the workshops and original production of William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)). The problem with Shakespeare ...

His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.-Othello, Act 4, Scene 2 When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.-The Winter’s ...

Two of William Shakespeare's family homes will temporarily close to visitors to allow a series of essential conservation ...

Arguably one of the greatest writers in history, William Shakespeare wrote a plethora of plays that continue to be enjoyed the world over. Here’s a list of his works, ranked from worst to best.

The Tempest*, starring Sigourney Weaver, kicked off Jamie Lloyd's season of Shakespeare, and plays until 1 February. *Much ...