H e 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 ...

Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English ...

Shakespeare wrote 38+ plays, and a slew of poetry – primarily sonnets (his variation of the sonnet is known as “the Shakespearean sonnet”). He died in 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon. A Midsummer Night’s ...

The Shakespeare letter, therefore, was saved from the bin and recycled, and even more remarkable, in Steggle’s telling, the Piscator book was originally published by Richard Field, who was ...

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

6 Shakespeare plays to read (and reread) without moderation. Hamlet (1603). To read or not to read Hamlet, that is not the question, for this play - often considered Shakespeare's greatest work ...

Why are the plays of William Shakespeare still so popular 400 years after his death? "Sunday Morning" talks with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and actor Patrick Page about the Bard's enduring ...