In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

You don’t have to try very hard to get your hands on any Shakespeare play in 2024. More than 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death, it’s easy to take for granted that his scripts are ubiquitous.

Love him or hate him, Shakespeare has had a profound influence on the arts. His plays and characters are some of the most adapted or repurposed works of literature. Many of Shakespeare’s works are ...

He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...

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“Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings,” King Richard says to his surrounding minions as his monarchy slips away. On its face, that sounds unappealing. But as put into ...

The Elm Shakespeare Company is marking its 30th anniversary with a Shakespeare play it has done twice before, the comic fantasy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Each production has been very different, ...