Judi Dench and William Shakespeare are pretty much synonymous with each other. He has played a momentous part in her career, ...

The director of Hamnet has said she only understood a third of Paul Mescal’s “to be or not to be” speech as William ...

I would never be so presumptuous, nor so incorrect, as to compare myself to William Shakespeare. But the portrayal of ...

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

Multiple theories suggest the playwright did not write his most famous works, including Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

Shakespeare & Company announced its 2026 season featuring “Hamlet,” “Twelfth Night” and reimagined productions, including ...

Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' is not a folk horror film, but the acclaimed historical drama has more than a few ingredients of the ...

The movie is based on real life events, but tells the fictional tale of Shakespeare and the people he loved most in life.

There are probably no greater academic debating topics than the mysterious life of the Bard of Avon — William Shakespeare. Did he really write those plays? If he didn’t, who did? Was he involved in ...

English teachers across the country are replacing William Shakespeare's works in their curriculum with "modern, diverse, and inclusive voices." Stock Montage/Getty Images William Shakespeare, thou ...

As if neither man wanted to live in a world without the other, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Or not exactly. They didn’t actually succumb on the same day.

Live fast, die young and write a pleth’ra of plays and poems. That was the motto William Shakespeare most likely lived by (and may have even scribbled down) nearly four centuries ago in early ...