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 ...

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

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 ...

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