With their dense wordplay, old English phrases and complex poetic meter, Shakespeare plays can be notoriously difficult to understand. Now, scientists have revealed the one which really is the ...

Back in 2002, Carlsbad’s New Village Arts closed its inaugural season with Shakespeare in the Park production of the 1599 play “As You Like It.” Now the Bard’s romcom is back in a fun, contemporary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare's time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...

THE works of William Shakespeare are set to be turned into video games – in a drive to get kids reading the Bard’s plays.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Mark Rylance as Olivia in an all-male production of Twelfth Night at the Apollo Theatre in 2012 - ...

Disney's Gargoyles premiered 32 years ago, weaving Macbeth, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream into its Shakespearean ...

After Shakespeare’s death, actors John Heminge and Henry Condell compiled 36 of his plays into a 1623 volume today called the First Folio. The first run printed 750 copies, of which 233 survive, ...

Researchers at the universities of Kent and Leeds have established that Edward III, an anonymous play published in 1596, was ...

To watch? Or not to watch. That is the question! Shakespeare is not only one of the most famous (if not the most famous) playwrights in the history of the world but also helped to inspire some of the ...

Editor’s Note: This article is one in a series of responses to Elizabeth Winkler’s article, “Was Shakespeare a Woman?,” in the June issue of the magazine. I don’t believe that Emilia Bassano wrote the ...

When you imagine the setting for Macbeth, misty heaths, battlefields, and the brooding highlands spring to mind. Teaching the play in the midst of a tropical summer in Townsville, far north Queensland ...