His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

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 ...

Amid the myriad theories about William Shakespeare and the plays under his name, one is the Marlovian Shakespeare theory, ...

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.

a peer of Shakespeare’s whose authorship of celebrated plays like Doctor Faustus has never been in doubt. In response to the claim of a lack of contemporary records, Biography.com notes that ...

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 ...