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 ...

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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Adjoa Andoh, the inaugural Director's Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about Shakespeare's relevance in modern times, and specifically to people of color.

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...

The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language. That was the striking message I took away from a talk by ...

THE BASICS: RICHARD III, by Shakespeare, directed by Greg Stuhr, starring Chris Avery, in a cast of 26, through 8/17, Tuesdays through Sundays (no Mondays) at 7:00 pm presented by Shakespeare in ...

New exhibition at UCSB Library traces the lineage of a single scrap of handwritten text to 21st century digital media.

A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Rep gets a modern Birmingham twist.

The timeless tale of betrayal, wealth, and disillusionment gets a bold new voice as Timon of Athens, one of William Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays and least-revived plays, debuts as a serialized ...

Before Memorial Day ushers in the summer season, theater companies around Lancaster County are offering a variety of plays, ...

LONDON — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ($6 million) at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house ...