(Romeo and Juliet) Shakespeare captures the contradictory emotions of goodbye, the pain of separation mixed with love's enduring promise. This oxymoron perfectly expresses how human feelings often ...

The document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought. Illustration of William Shakespeare leaving home, bidding farewell to his wife ...

LONDON — Fresh analysis by a British scholar of a long-forgotten fragment of a letter addressed to the “Good Mrs Shakspaire” suggests that the renowned playwright William Shakespeare might ...

Shakespeare’s literature is more than mere words on a page. It is a mirror held up to the values and aspirations of our shared humanity, echoing the very essence of the United Nations.

Abraham Shakespeare, a Florida-based casual laborer, received a $30 million lottery jackpot in 2006. During the subsequent years, he distributed or spent nearly all of his winnings, drawing ...

This wasn’t my first rodeo. I had tackled the grueling task of dissecting the themes and literary devices William Shakespeare concocted before. During high school, I was forced to read two of his ...

An oxymoron? Michael Gotch’s Edmund is seductive ... bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great theatre should: it wounds ...

Everyone from Mark Twain to Keanu Reeves has expressed doubts that Shakespeare was Shakespeare—and the anti-Stratfordians have floated plenty of conspiracy theories about the Bard’s “true ...

Mr. Lichtenberg is the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington. Earlier this month, theater lovers in the Bay Area got some very bad news. California Shakespeare Theater ...

Tosh is Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He is the author of Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Where should we look for an LGBTQ+ icon from the ...

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...