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

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ...

Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia ...

April 23rd is a date steeped in historical significance, weaving together a tapestry of cultural, political, and scientific ...

The first (L) and second folio of works by William Shakespeare are pictured during ... years after Shakespeare's death and contains thirty-six plays, eighteen of them printed for the first time.