This story is a collaboration with Biography.com William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “ Bard of Avon ” have been performed, ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library. It was hidden among the papers of Elias Ashmole, founder of the ...

William Shakespeare was no stranger to the task of plying his trade amid difficult conditions. He was working in London when the bubonic plague surfaced in 1592 and again in 1603, the latter a ...

Dr. Brean Hammond of Nottingham University said that Theobald always claimed that his play was substantially based on a play called Cardenio, co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.

It challenges the long-held theory of probability that, given an infinite period of time, monkeys pressing keys at random on a typewriter would eventually be able to reproduce the famous texts.

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “ Sonnet 116 ” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem.

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in ...