His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an elusive figure. He left behind little documentation ...

Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The exhibition, called Becoming Shakespeare, opens in Stratford-upon-Avon ...

With over 38 plays and 154 sonnets, Shakespeare has stood the test of time, his works considered “classics.” His relevance, however, far outshines the classrooms of high school and academic scholars.

If she has any trepidation about taking on the commanding mythology of Shakespeare on his home turf, she doesn’t show it. “If you look at the evidence for him writing the plays, it doesn’t ...

The universe will die before a monkey manages to bang out the complete works of Shakespeare, according to a new study. The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a long-rehashed thought experiment suggesting ...

George Dance / National Portrait Gallery, London William-Henry told his father about a "new" Shakespeare play before writing a single line of it. To allay his father's impatience, he then had to ...

Many writers and academics have asked whether just a few basic plots have ever existed, spanning the centuries from the Minotaur to Mad Max, from Shakespeare to Star Wars. The 18th Century Italian ...