Cinema’s fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don’t try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

The film “Hamnet” — an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel of the same name — presents a grief-driven ...

Shakespeare in Love actress Gwyneth Paltrow has reflected on the criticism from the 1999 Academy Awards, where her film won ...

In this time of bipartisan acrimony, many on the left and on the right share one point of consensus: Shakespeare is a problem. Admittedly, this consensus exists at the ends of the spectrum, and ...

"The very same intellectual flabbiness that makes some people trust Answers in Genesis makes others believe that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays." - Professor Alan Jacobs No, instead it's ...

There are probably no greater academic debating topics than the mysterious life of the Bard of Avon — William Shakespeare. Did he really write those plays? If he didn’t, who did? Was he involved in ...

Rosenberg has a point. A Shakespeare who is never questioned is a Shakespeare who's irrelevant. And there are a lot of things to question in Shakespeare for a modern audience. One of those things, ...

Two centuries after Shakespeare's death, a lowly law clerk named William Henry Ireland forged the Bard's signature and a seal that convinced skeptics. Hugh Douglas Hamilton / National Portrait Gallery ...

MERRIMAN (butler to Mr. Worthing) and LANE (servant to Mr. Moncrieff) — will be played by one actor. Merriman is proper, ...

From concerts to plays and festivals to poetry readings, Shakespeare is alive and well in Orange County. The events below give you and your family an opportunity to explore and experience the ...

Although he never left England, Shakespeare’s plays are set around the globe and he is the planet’s most famous playwright. Andrew Dickson finds out why. Shakespeare was fascinated by the word ‘world’ ...