His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an elusive figure. He left behind little documentation ...

Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The exhibition, called Becoming Shakespeare, opens in Stratford-upon-Avon ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

Steggle answered questions via email about the letter and his research. I’m writing a Shakespeare biography, and found the document referenced briefly in one or two places, but nobody actually ...

Many writers and academics have asked whether just a few basic plots have ever existed, spanning the centuries from the Minotaur to Mad Max, from Shakespeare to Star Wars. The 18th Century Italian ...