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 ...

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 ...

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