Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

The Taming of the Shrew” and “Much Ado About Nothing” are each difficult shows to stage in the modern day. Directors ...

Every age, after his own, has gone in search of Shakespeare. The first biography was written in 1709 by Nicholas Rowe. Now it is a poor year for the Shakespeare business when two or three more do not ...

Every summer, for 50 years, Buffalo’s historic Delaware Park undergoes a magical transformation: Between Hoyt Lake and the Rose Garden, a towering stage emerges in the park’s natural amphitheater. For ...

Tosh is Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. He is the author of Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Where should we look for an LGBTQ+ icon from the ...

Based on a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, director Chloé Zhao's film presupposes that “Hamlet” was not a reworking of the ...

A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have ...

In Episode One, we are introduced to the dark side of Queen Elizabeth's police state – in a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the ...

David Sterling Brown receives funding from the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s ...

Mr. Lichtenberg is the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington. Earlier this month, theater lovers in the Bay Area got some very bad news. California Shakespeare Theater, ...

THE biography of Shakespeare, if we merely look at the bulk of the books which assume to record it, is both minute and extensive ; but when we subject the octavo or quarto to examination, we find a ...