The Shakespeare Ladies Club worked to restore the playwright's reputation 300 years ago.

A collection of William Shakespeare books published over 300 years ago are set to go on auction where they are expected to fetch between £3.5 and £4.5 million. The four folios are believed to have ...

The award-winning novel and Oscar-nominated film examine how grief can affect a family ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

Early last year, doing research for a book, I started to spend more and more of each day thinking about that question. The thing is, it seems like we should know what he looked like – the greatest ...

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 ...