New analysis of a letter fragment mentioning Shakespeare and his wife suggests the couple lived together in London in the ...

“Happiness” derives from the Old Norse word “hap ,” which meant “fortune” or “luck,” as historians Phil Withington and Darrin McMahon explain. This earlier sense is found throughout Shakespeare’s ...

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up.

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

The sale marks the first time since 1989 that the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works appear at auction as a single lot.

On Shakespeare Day, we celebrate the Bard’s record-breaking impact on language, literature, and culture 459 years after his ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

April 23rd is a date steeped in historical significance, weaving together a tapestry of cultural, political, and scientific ...

The day coincides with both the birthday and death day of William Shakespeare and World Book Day. The English language is one ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...

TheatreSquared’s latest production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, presented in collaboration with the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) and Play On Shakespeare, and ran through ...