Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...
Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous monarch and charts the ...
That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare wrote this famous phrase for the play Romeo and Juliet to convey the meaninglessness of surnames and ...
Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...