Hamnet’ is a family drama about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children. Learn how the movie blends fact and ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and ...

Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English language.

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By James Shapiro THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By Lena Cowen Orlin Much of the evidence ...

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

Only portrait of dramatist in life hung unidentified for centuries. LONDON, March 9, 2009— -- The only portrait of William Shakespeare made during his life has been discovered in the private ...

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One There Was a Starre Daunst, and Under That Was I Borne William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George ...

Two of the latter are appropriately inspired by the turmoil of real events: one, a historical fiction based on Shakespeare’s life, and the other, a fast-paced sports dramedy inspired by the career of ...

Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago, but if blogger Joe Muldoon had it his way, we would all still speak like the Bard. Muldoon talks about his op-ed, "We Can't All Be Shakespeare — But We Could Try ...