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So You Haven't Read Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare? Well, this is still one of the most popular comedies to be ...
A Shakespeare scholar has claimed that the bard wrote Hamlet after he saw a ‘terrible’ play with the same name. Daniel Swift ...
Why are the plays of William Shakespeare still so popular four hundred years after the Bard's death? Correspondent Mo Rocca ...
Some say that it changed the course of Hollywood forever.Method actor heartthrob Marlon Brando had set the screen alight with ...
What did William Shakespeare actually sound like? If you've only heard his plays in modern British or American accents, you're missing a vital piece of the puzzle. In this fascinating deep dive, we ...
In this web exclusive, correspondent Mo Rocca sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd at ...
So, that's really fun. When you get to the end, all the right things happen to the right people, and everybody's OK," said D.
Here are the movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. There’s no question that William Shakespeare is one of the ...
There's a well-known adage among bibliophiles that goes something like this: "The book is always better than the movie." ...
This summer, spend an afternoon or evening watching a play at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum‘s outdoor amphitheater, where ...
Lord of the Rings actor Sir Ian McKellen will do the introduction for an all transgender and non-binary performance of ...
Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, featuring three productions ...