The 2018 film, All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public Theater ...

LONDON — We know her eyes were “raven black” and her hair like “black wires.” But so much about the mysterious “Dark Lady” in Shakespeare’s final sonnets is unknown. In “Emilia,” a new play running ...

I never cared much for Shakespeare so I had no reason to care about his true identity. I knew that people questioned it, but I presumed this was a kooky conspiracy theory. Then a chance comment opened ...

The document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought. Illustration of William Shakespeare leaving home, bidding farewell to his wife, ...

Was William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of all-time, actually a faithful Jew? At first glance the question seems preposterous. Shakespeare is the author of one of the most famous ...

According to the jacket copy for Dark Renaissance, Professor Stephen Greenblatt has been “studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature his entire working life”. Lurking behind this ...

Cicely Berry, whose unorthodox exercises released actors’ minds to feel the sound and muscularity of Shakespeare’s verse for nearly a half-century as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice director, ...