Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

How do you tell the story of the world’s greatest literary career when the literary part is a gaping hole, “a jigsaw puzzle for which most of the pieces are missing,” as one scholar put it? You get ...

William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway was 26 when she married the 18-year-old Bard. New findings reveal they may have had ...

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At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old ...

William Shakespeare's writing legacy lives on in ordinary conversation through sayings like "break the ice"—from The Taming of the Shrew—and "one fell swoop" from Macbeth. The famed poet and dramatist ...

Jack Lynch’s argument in “Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard” (Walker, 320 pages, $24.95) is reminiscent of Walter Pater’s idea that the ...

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Shakespeare’s birthday on April 23 will be marked by an extraordinary relay. Over 24 hours, 60 groups of youngsters from New Zealand to Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this ...

Discover the real historical figures behind five of Shakespeare's most famous characters, from Hamlet to Cleopatra.