In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won $30 million in the Florida lottery, ultimately choosing to take a $17 million lump-sum payout. Shakespeare was generous with his winnings, helping friends and family ...

Together with Brendan O'Hea, a friend and fellow actor, Dench explores her connection with Shakespeare in their collaborative book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent." The title is a nod to ...

Here were paintings by Hogarth and Van Dyck, rare books, a piece of a mummy’s shroud and a silver-trimmed goblet carved from the wood of a mulberry tree that Shakespeare was said to have planted ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio which was stolen 25 years ago is to go on display for the first time in more than a decade. The book was taken from Durham University's Cosin's Library in 1998 and ...

Why the First Folio is the greatest single volume of work in English literature Bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult on why she thinks Shakespeare was a woman Can this book really teach people how ...

Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.

...First Folio. The story of how, 400 years ago, two actors and friends of William Shakespeare took on the task of saving his work for posterity in one book, the First Folio.