A lot of people are saying that Shakespeare was a great poet. Well, I write greater than him did, or he — whatever — and I ...

This may be the real face of William Shakespeare. The portrait, never before seen in Britain, is the only one known to have been completed while the Bard was still alive. Painted on an oak board ...

For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. You can't make a list like this ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

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

Four folios of William Shakespeare's plays that date back over three-and-a-half centuries are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London.

There have been a lot of writers since the 16th century. But there's only one Bard. William Shakespeare, who was born one of eight children 461 years ago on April 23, 1564, lived just 52 years.

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an elusive figure. He left behind little documentation — no ...