On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth (commonly called Macbeth) is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime ...

In “The Riverside Shakespeare,” a magisterial compendium that has illumined lives and overloaded bookshelves for decades, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” appears in small print that runs for 27 pages. In a ...

On April 23 literature lovers around the planet celebrated the 452 nd birthday of William Shakespeare. The date also happened to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s 1616 death, an epic ...

Just a few stanzas after Hamlet famously soliloquized "To be or not to be," his maker, William Shakespeare, contemplated the fact that once a person dies, no living person knows where that departed ...