On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

According to the jacket copy for Dark Renaissance, Professor Stephen Greenblatt has been “studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature his entire working life”. Lurking behind this ...

Much Ado About Nothing (1993) was penned, helmed and featured the incomparable Sir Kenneth Branagh, who breathed life into ...

“Born With Teeth,” which premiered in the West End of London this week, imagines the writers’ working relationship as heavy on bawdy flirtation. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London Christopher ...

The rediscovered will belonged to Thomas Nash, the Bard’s granddaughter’s husband. One of Nash’s wishes contradicted ...