LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A portrait of William Shakespeare and a copy of a speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" were sent to the edge of space as part of a short film series marking 400 years ...

LONDON -- A centuries-old portrait unveiled Monday of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery may be the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime, experts say. That ...

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,” William Shakespeare wrote in a stanza from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, going on to name check several darlings of Elizabethan gardens — oxlips, violets, ...

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(CNN) — William Shakespeare’s influence over the world remains unwavering more than four centuries after the renowned dramatist began his career. To mark the continued resonance of the famed ...