Here's a test: close your eyes and in your mind picture what William Shakespeare looked like. Almost certainly you're thinking of a middle-aged man with a receding hairline and pointy beard ...

But William Shakespeare (1564-1616 ... clues that the “Stratford man” and Shakespeare were one and the same. Not only does his likeness look like the etched portrait in the First Folio ...

William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. It has been long believed that the playwright left his wife behind when ...

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to £4.5 million ($6 million) at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on ...

Very little is known about Shakespeare's physical appearance and his body measurements, such as his height and weight, so what did the Bard really look like? Various portraits have been painted ...