Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and poet. His works have been translated into 80 languages, including Star Trek’s Klingon. He helped shape the English we use today ...

surprisingly little is known about William Shakespeare’s life. For the past four centuries, historians have had the difficult ...

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and married Anne Hathaway in 1582. They had three children. Shakespeare spent most of his professional life with an acting company in London, th ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

A friend of mine once asked a young girl why she liked Shakespeare. She replied: "Because he gets to the big stuff, really quickly." I’ve often thought about what makes Shakespeare special for ...

Shakespeare’s plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. Shakespeare spent most of his professional life with an acting company in London, Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Life in ...

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William Shakespeare was an English actor, poet and playwright. During Shakespeare’s lifetime, the theatre became a very popular form of entertainment in London. Acting companies built their own ...

Shakespeare Unlocked, part of the BBC's contribution to the London 2012 Festival, is a season exploring how one man captured so much about what it means to be human. The BBC has teamed up with the ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. In the annals of William Shakespeare’s legacy, a twist has emerged that’s practically as dramatic as any of the Bard’s plays: the real ...

Mingled with those ill tidings, though, the professional classical theater has staged well over 100 productions that have ...