Today is The Bard's 461st birthday and Sotheby's auction house has announced the sale of a set of First, Second, Third and ...

Sotheby’s will auction a rare complete set of Shakespeare’s first four Folios next month, with an estimated sale price of up to $6 million.

This new production from Sport for Jove presents eight of Shakepeare’s history plays in order. It is stupendously absorbing and exquisitely realised.

Following his son’s death Shakespeare appeared to write plays with darker, more tragic themes. As well as writing plays, Shakespeare was also a poet. He wrote three long narrative poems and 154 ...

Michael Rosen explores the work of William Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights, and looks at why his plays in particular have stood the test of time. Was Shakespeare a feminist? documentWas ...

To say that William Shakespeare bestrides our culture like a colossus is to chronically undersell him. Over 400 years since his death, the Stratford-born playwright is virtually uncontested as the ...

Language plays an important part in Shakespeare’s plays. He uses language in different ways to entertain the audience. Learn about the words he invented and why we still use them today.