Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, praised critically. The film explores William Shakespeare's ...

Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. Kicking off in September, the lineup of three powerful, joyful, and poignant plays will illustrate ...

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, ...

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up. In a paper published in the journal Shakespeare on April 24 — the day after the Bard’s 461st birthday, if you happened to have candles ...

William Shakespeare was a Renaissance-era writer and actor, often referred to as England's national poet, the world's greatest dramatist, and the "Bard of Avon." Despite this widespread success, the ...

We define bardolatry as the excessive admiration for William Shakespeare’s life and works. It’s quite a recent phenomenon, all things considered. No one was mobbing his wife Anne, the press wasn’t ...

Booklovers might want to grab themselves a copy of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to cuddle up with over the festive season – as it is ...

Scholars are slamming the film for playing fast and loose with historical reality — even though that was a technique favored ...

The film “Hamnet” — an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel of the same name — presents a grief-driven ...

Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl, and John Everett Millias's painting "Ophelia." One of the most literal Shakespeare references in the album is the title of her first track: "The Fate of Ophelia." ...

Shakespeare Company at UCLA is honoring tradition with a modern flair. Shakespeare Company at UCLA is a student-run theater organization that provides a space for lovers of classic literature and ...

It can be a little tough finding NOLA Project’s newest outdoor theater space. Located just off Lafitte Greenway in Mid-City, the former vehicle inspection station is a tangle of concrete, steel and ...