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 ...

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 ...

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 ...