The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First Folios and other materials while leaving him oddly diminished.

William Shakespeare might not have been an absent husband after all. While it has long been believed that the playwright left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to go work in London, a ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company will tour its West End production of the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet to Bradford Alhambra next ...

He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...

His father, Samuel Ireland, was obsessed with collecting antiquities and curiosities, particularly Shakespearean memorabilia. He cared more about his collection than his family.

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call ...

Shakespeare was born in Henley Street in 1564, and his birthplace remains a popular tourist destination to this day. His family home is now a museum, providing insights into 16 th -century life ...

The relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. For more than 200 years it has been believed that ...

Shakespeare married Hathaway in 1582 and the couple shared three children. Experts have long thought that Shakespeare then moved to London from his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, leaving his family ...