He was our greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare wasn't above buttering up his sovereign. That was the intention of an 18-line poem addressed to Elizabeth I which has been officially ...

His study used poems by William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, ­Sylvia Plath and Dorothea Lasky.

People prefer AI-generated poetry over Shakespeare and Byron because it is more ‘beautiful’ and easier to understand, a study has found. In the experiment some real works by major literary ...

William Shakespeare remains the UK’s best-known and best-loved playwright and poet, not to mention the most-performed (Picture: Alamy) The English language, and our appreciation for the power of ...

Material unearthed from William Shakespeare’s garden and hometown suggests that the famed British playwright smoked cannabis. Now a 400-year-old poem offers literary evidence to support this ...