The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First ...

Oh, Will, you bad, bad Bard. All the time I’ve been defending you from the elitists and snobs who refuse to credit the idea that you, a mere glover’s son, could have penned some of the most ...

The Utah Shakespeare Festival is back for its 64th season with fresh stories to tell, including a Tony Award-winning musical, ...

In San Diego, summer means Shakespeare. This year, there are a pair of comedies to enjoy under the stars at The Old Globe's ...

Not all Shakespeare was as if handed down by God; not all Shakespeare is equal. Kermode points out that there are times, particularly in late Shakespeare in Coriolanus or A Winter’s Tale, ...

NEARLY 400 years after his death, Shakespeare remains more popular than ever. A constant stream of films, stage productions, critical commentaries, new editions, Web sites and chat lists all ...

His Shakespeare book is dedicated to Raymond Weaver, his colleague at Columbia, with whom he shared an office. Weaver, says ...

Kenneth Branagh’s “All Is True” imagines Shakespeare’s retirement, and “Tolkien” maps Middle-earth onto its creator’s formative years.

In "Hamlet," William Shakespeare contemplated the fact that once a person dies, no living person knows where that departed soul goes. That same uncertainty hovers around the final hours of the ...