When Bill Rauch applied to become the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in 2007, he pitched an ambitious ten-year project: the festival would commission thirty-seven new plays ...

This article begins by reviewing recent arguments that Shakespeare biographers simply do not know enough to write a true life and, thus, tend to make “bricks without straw”. This sense of incompletion ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, praised critically. The film explores William Shakespeare's ...

The Elizabethan era has everything: the mysterious lost years of William Shakespeare, his playwright/spy contemporary, and multiple plots to destroy England, and we haven’t even gotten to the ...

"Shakespeare in Prague" might seem like something of an oxymoron. But from the early 17th century, when English traveling companies toured continental Europe, through to modern times, the people of ...

To open its 50th anniversary season, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey chose “Henry IV, Part One,” one of Shakespeare’s history plays. The production, which opens officially tomorrow night at the ...

Since the 16th Century, the spiritual home to the plays of William Shakespeare has been London’s Globe Theatre (currently in its third incarnation). But after more than 400 years as a distinctly ...

On Tuesday, word spread about the discovery of a "first folio" of the works of William Shakespeare, an artifact that news outlet placed somewhere between the holy grail and a black rhinoceros on the ...

Planning a vacation that appeals to couples, families and other groups with diverse interests and a range of ages is often a challenge, but a new biking adventure through Shakespeare country aims to ...

Shakespeare and Co., the English-language bookstore just across the Seine River from Notre Dame in Paris, is pretty much everything a bookstore should be. Housed in what was once a 17th-century ...