Cinema’s fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don’t try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

In this time of bipartisan acrimony, many on the left and on the right share one point of consensus: Shakespeare is a problem. Admittedly, this consensus exists at the ends of the spectrum, and ...

Illustration of Shakespeare reciting "Hamlet" to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. People rarely argue over the question, “Who is the greatest writer of all time?” Even though several literary ...

Two centuries after Shakespeare's death, a lowly law clerk named William Henry Ireland forged the Bard's signature and a seal that convinced skeptics. Hugh Douglas Hamilton / National Portrait Gallery ...

Tosh is Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He is the author of Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Where should we look for an LGBTQ+ icon from the ...

Re “Who’s Afraid of William Shakespeare?,” by Drew Lichtenberg (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 21): As a managing director at the nonprofit Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and former ...

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and married Anne Hathaway in 1582. They had three children. Shakespeare spent most of his professional life with an acting company in London, the ...

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles at swing in a scene from the film "10 Things I Hate About You," 1999. "All the world's a stage" and sometimes a film set. Whether you frequent Shakespeare Festivals or ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been the site of ...

Jamie Q. Roberts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our ...