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 ...

Neal Street Productions with NBC Universal and WNET bring together a world-class cast and crew for a major new cycle of four of Shakespeare’s most acclaimed history plays. The first film in the ...

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

The full canon of Shakespeare's plays performed and recorded by the Royal Shakespeare Company is now available to stream in ...

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.

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 ...

Shakespeare was prolific, with records of his first plays beginning to appear in 1594, from which time he produced roughly two a year until around 1611. His hard work quickly paid off, with signs ...

Shakespeare’s play highlights the flawed character of ... As a political leader, Richard III left a legacy in English history as one of England’s worst monarchs. That legacy includes his ...

If I was a University of the West of England drama student, I’d be furious about being treated like such a snowflake,” Free ...

You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

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

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