Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. As Dobson tells the Times, “The printed copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets was ...

Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated ... Many of them had appeared as quartos: flimsy books made from folded paper, which the First Folio described as "stol'n and surreptitious copies." ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

A former high school valedictorian, Chung also served as a social media editor for Quarto, Columbia University's official undergraduate literary magazine. As of Monday, she was not in federal custody.

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford. The manuscript was found among the papers of ...

Two West Midlands primary schools have taken to the stage to mark the beginning of Shakespeare Week. The national series of events for school children celebrates the playwright, which organisers ...

“The more familiar you are with Shakespeare, the more you’ve rolled it around in your mouth, the more elastic and liquid it will become on the floor, and it’s got to be a second language to you.