The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and ...

Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.

A new letter suggests that William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of solid marriage and shared life than ...

When Shakespeare penned, “Oh, what fools these mortals be,” he couldn’t ever have imagined the deliberately, delightfully ...

In 1623, seven years after William Shakespeare’s death, two of the playwright’s friends published a compilation of his works.

American Coast Theater Company has announced the Orange County premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest: A Wilde New ...

While it has long been believed that the playwright left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to go work in London, a newly recovered letter to his wife, Anne Hathaway, suggests that the couple ...

A WILLIAM Shakespeare impersonator quit after being accused of making racist remarks. Paul Workman, 74, says the row over ...

Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The ...

New research examining a fragment of a 17th century letter addressed to “good Mrs Shakspaire” suggests that William ...

L ong before social media took over our lives, William Shakespeare was already spinning tales that would have gone viral in ...

I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I remembered that William ...