Edward de Vere’s life — as are his plays — was extremely complicated. Like many of his characters, he was impetuous and often ...

Even in Shakespeare’s day people were extremely superstitious. During the Elizabethan era people blamed unexplainable events such as the Bubonic Plague, unexplained deaths or unpleasant ...

ACTOR Danny Dyer thinks he might be in his “Shakespeare era” and is just waiting for someone to offer him a part. The hardman EastEnders star, 47, said that treading the boards in a play by ...

Down the block from the U.S. Capitol, the Folger Theatre is serving up Lauren M. Gunderson’s breezily funny if eye-rollingly on-the-nose “A Room in the Castle,” a world-premiere co-production with the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 was discovered in a 17th-century poetry collection among Elias Ashmole's papers. This version, adapted as a ...