Twelve of the darkest Shakespearean and Jacobean plays that expose the brutal cost of ambition, betrayal, and madness with ...

Tragic news first: King Leontes of Sicilia wrongly suspects his pregnant wife, Hermione, of infidelity with his best friend, ...

By the second half, it turns into a kind of comedy with “reconciliation ... have been a compelling one-act tragedy and it might have seemed complete “but Shakespeare says those rules you ...

In 1598 the author Francis Meres described Shakespeare as England’s greatest writer in comedy and tragedy. In 1602 Shakespeare's continuing success enabled him to move to upmarket Silver Street ...

The tradition returns this year with Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays because of its shifts in tone between comedy and tragedy. Written in the early 1600s ...

Parent’s production is playful in new ways — fate doesn’t have to dictate outcome, expectations can be defied, tragedy can peek out from behind comedy.

Rachel Simone Webb, who plays Juliet, called the show a “tragedy turned comedy.” The story picks up at the end of “Romeo and Juliet” when Juliet finds Romeo dead. “And so basically ...

“If music be the food of love, play on” is one of many quotable lines in William Shakespeare’s ... in fact, comedy and tragedy can be intertwined. So it makes sense that as you watch ...