Multiple theories suggest the playwright did not write his most famous works, including Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

"She was what I understand a woman to be", says Buckley on playing Shakespeare's wife and the mother of their son Hamnet.

The location of William Shakespeare’s London home where the playwright wrote “Romeo and Juliet” has been identified for the first time, according to new research. Theater historian Geoffrey Marsh ...

Judi Dench and William Shakespeare are pretty much synonymous with each other. He has played a momentous part in her career, ...

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

Like alien autopsies and the second gunman, the belief that someone other than a glover’s son from Stratford wrote William Shakespeare’s plays is a conspiracy theory that refuses to die. Doubters ...

If you’ve read and loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, Hamnet will be high on your new year’s viewing list. And Chloé Zhao’s ...

English teachers across the country are replacing William Shakespeare's works in their curriculum with "modern, diverse, and inclusive voices." Stock Montage/Getty Images William Shakespeare, thou ...

To be or not to be: in the case of this portrait, that really is the question. For a window cleaner believes his family could own the only picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.

As if neither man wanted to live in a world without the other, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Or not exactly. They didn’t actually succumb on the same day.

Imagine Charles Dickens happens to run into William Shakespeare in an out-of-the-way London pub late on a snowy Christmas Eve, and they start talking shop. After five or six pints, they’ve forged an ...

Say the words 'Shakespeare's sister' and you might think of the Irish pop duo from the 1980s, or a famous song by The Smiths. In fact, most people are unaware that the great English playwright ever ...