People loved watching plays. They were as popular then as TV shows are now and some of the actors became just as famous. One of these actors was William Shakespeare. He's still famous today.

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict ...

By the last years of Elizabeth I's reign Shakespeare was well established as a famous poet and playwright and was called upon to perform several of his plays before the Queen at court. In 1598 the ...

according to researchers The bold staging of Shakespeare’s classic helped make Harlem a home for “serious” theater A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative ...