As a Shakespearean scholar, I thought I knew his plays from the inside out, but the coronavirus revealed a whole new relevance to me.

"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 ...

LONDON — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ($6 million) at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house ...

A popular class at Worcester Polytechnic Institute called "Infected Shakespeare" studies how the famed playwright understood and wrote about pandemics and infectious diseases. WPI associate professor ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

The 23 rd of April is the traditional day for celebrating English playwright William Shakespeare’s birth in 1564. April 23 also happens to be the date on which he died in 1616, at the age of 52. A ...

On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

Shakespeare, Shakespeare—wherefore art thou modern-day adaptations? Turns out, they're all around us! From timeless tragedies to laugh-out-loud comedies, these movies based on Shakespeare's plays give ...