The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...

But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays ... drops this famous phrase: "I will wear my heart upon my ...

Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia ...

April 23rd is a date steeped in historical significance, weaving together a tapestry of cultural, political, and scientific ...

LONDON (AP) — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare ... million and 4.5 million pounds. After Shakespeare’s death in 1616, his plays were collected into a single volume ...

William Shakespeare was not an absentee husband ... during a fruitful decade in which the Bard wrote some of his most famous plays, including "Hamlet" and "Othello." Steggle's analysis "reads ...