He’s the most performed playwright in history. But which of William Shakespeare’s plays do twenty-first century Brits actually like the most? Back in 2016, we marked the celebrations around ...

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

In “Something of Shakespeare in Trump’s lawyers purge ... not so much resemble Donald Trump as Elon Musk — for Dick plays lieutenant to the rebel leader, Jack Cade.

Which is Shakespeare’s greatest play? Ay, there’s the rub. More than four centuries since Britain’s greatest playwright died, ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

In 2024, the Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre presented its first play that wasn’t written, or inspired, by William Shakespeare.

A classic set right here in Alabama, “The Watsons go to Birmingham” is a harrowing and heartwarming tale of family bonds at a ...

I have ignored the biography of Shakespeare, the history and character of his time, the conventions of his theater, the works of his contemporaries, and with respect to the plays themselves ...

He also won an Olivier Award for Sondheim musical Company, and is now returning to the stage to lead a new production of Shakespeare’s history play Richard II. Bailey stars as the titular king ...

New production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is an extraordinarily imaginative, disarmingly sincere and very funny love ...

Shakespeare’s Richard imagines his ... But the Quarto edition of 1597 came closer to the greatness of a play that transcends the history it recounts. This – standing alongside Hamlet, King ...