William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway was 26 when she married the 18-year-old Bard. New findings reveal they may have had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among Shakespeare scholars, those five works are known as his traditionally understood “race plays” and include characters who are ...

Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths — ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is ...

Is it true? Like most viral Tweets, yes and no. As Professor James Shapiro told us in his recent bestseller 1606: William Shakespeare and The Year of Lear, no one can quite be sure when “King Lear” ...

Sir Ian McKellen shares the reason why he did not get Chloé Zhao's Hamnet.

William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this month, on April 23, 1616. His complete works—at least 38 surviving plays (including several collaborations), 154 sonnets, and five narrative poems, totaling ...

The portrait hung above the family TV for 50 years before they realized it might be Shakespeare. The portrait hung above the Wadlow family’s television set for 50 years. While watching a program about ...

Considering the fact that William Shakespeare is both one of the most influential and one of the most studied poets and writers of all time, his work is constantly being analyzed by academics all over ...

With Joss Whedon’s contemporary take on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” winning the hearts of most critics and earning a tidy $183,000 in just five theaters in its opening ...

There are only two accepted representations of William Shakespeare that are considered “official” – but could a portrait that has been hanging over a family’s mantelpiece for the last 50 years be the ...

The menu to select an avatar for Juliet in mixed-reality game Play the Knave. For professors designing virtual reality versions of Shakespeare’s plays, that is the question. The answer(s) may have ...