In an age before electric or gas lighting, Shakespeare rises early to take advantage ... that this was done without approval. William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England’s bard.

Meanwhile Macbeth, also written early in James's reign ... A timeline showing an imagined day in the life of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon circa 1604. Made in association with ...

Every scholar is aware of the precision with which Shakespeare limns ... author of the plays — William of Stratford, we might call him — and court or political life. This has perplexed many ...

Speaker David Bevington is an authority on early English, Stuart, and Tudor drama. He is the author of From "Mankind" to Marlowe and Action Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture, editor of ...