Here's a test: close your eyes and in your mind picture what William Shakespeare looked like. Almost certainly you're thinking of a middle-aged man with a receding hairline and pointy beard ...

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

The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...

Twelve of the darkest Shakespearean and Jacobean plays that expose the brutal cost of ambition, betrayal, and madness with ...

Very little is known about Shakespeare's physical appearance and his body measurements, such as his height and weight, so what did the Bard really look like? Various portraits have been painted ...