The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated “even if we don’t hear a single one of his ...

While researching her new book, “Monsters in the Archives,” author Caroline Bicks found The Bard and the King of horror had ...

Shakespeare was known to have lived for a time in Blackfriars, London, but the location of his home was a matter of ...

Staunton, Virginia, is home to the world’s first-ever re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse.

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time.

To read Shakespeare is to read life in its entirety. Paraphrasing Shakespeare's own quote for Cleopatra from his play Antony ...

From festivals to local theater productions, this English playwright is having a moment in the Capital Region.

Fans of William Shakespeare know that the great playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon, the riverside English town where tourists still throng to see his childhood home.

Likewise, having Henry VI declare at the altar “ignorance is the curse of God” creates a dynamic where the actor embodies ...

These days, Steven Spielberg is used to being called one of the most important and influential filmmakers in modern cinema, ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Adjoa Andoh, the inaugural Director's Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about Shakespeare's relevance in modern times, and specifically to people of color.