LONDON (Reuters) - A curse engraved on the tomb of playwright William Shakespeare may have saved his remains from being exhumed, an academic says. Digging up the bones of the dead was common in ...

LONDON — Fix the gravesite. But don't touch the bones. That's the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fix-up job for the gravesite of William Shakespeare inside the Holy ...

LONDON — Fix the gravesite. But don’t touch the bones. That’s the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fixup job for the deteriorating gravesite of William Shakespeare ...

Fix the grave site. But don't touch the bones. That's the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fixup job for the deteriorating grave site of William Shakespeare inside Holy ...

Fix the grave site. But don't touch the bones. That's the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fix-up job for the deteriorating grave site of William Shakespeare in the Holy ...

A poet's curse Whether or not Shakespeare smoked pot, he certainly didn't want his remains disrupted. The stone covering the poet's grave carries an engraved curse for any would-be intruders. "Blessed ...

Philip Schwyzer receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the European Research Council. The image of a man holding a skull while ruminating upon mortality will always call Hamlet, and ...