Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as William Shakespeare and his wife in Chloé Zhao’s film, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, that speculates about the influence of their family life on ‘Hamlet.’ ...

So claimed Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s friend and contemporary upon the man’s passing in 1616 at age 52. Which has turned out to be the case. Shockingly, it almost wasn’t so. Ten years after the ...

For centuries it has been assumed that William Shakespeare was a Protestant who fell in line with the religious beliefs of Elizabethan England. But Clare Asquith, an independent scholar, suggests that ...

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of Shakespeare's life.

Shakespearean education is no longer limited to the classroom. Hosted by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA, the upcoming Bard in the Yard event Tuesday in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden will ...

Jason Young, co-founder of West Virginia’s only touring Shakespeare troupe, rejects the notion that his group, the Rustic Mechanicals, might be playing the role of savior bringing culture to ...

When it comes to literary works on film, no one touches William Shakespeare. The 38 plays he wrote between 1589 and 1616, the year of his death, account for around 1,220 big- and small-screen ...

Shakespeare Company at UCLA is honoring tradition with a modern flair. Shakespeare Company at UCLA is a student-run theater organization that provides a space for lovers of classic literature and ...

Syracuse Shakespeare-In-The-Park celebrates the Bard’s 458th birthday with the announcement of the 2022-23 season. The festival’s two traditional, free summer shows at Thornden Park Amphitheatre ...

While the current season of Bard on the Beach continues until September 24, Bard Artistic Director Christopher Gaze has announced the lineup for the Festival's 34th Season, which will run from June to ...

“Circus & The Bard,” a collaboration between Shakespeare & Company and the Florida-based Spirit of the Circus, is an effort to make the external as visceral as the internal. As it turns out, the ...