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For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. You can't make a list like this ...
The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and ...
A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up.
Another big-screen take on the Bard dumbs down classic literature, prioritizes its simpleminded pop music soundtrack.
A new letter suggests that William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of solid marriage and shared life than ...
His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...
The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.
Throughout the history of storytelling, few names have had a greater impact than William Shakespeare. A legendary playwright and poet, his works have not only stood the test of time, but they've also ...
The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...
Performers have been rehearsing for a show which combines William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with wrestling.
The relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research.For more than 200 years it has been believed that ...
The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...