Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

IS IN ITS 30TH YEAR. IT WAS ALSO A GOOD DAY TO ENJOY SOME SHAKESPEARE AT A COUPLE OF LOCAL PARKS TODAY. KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE PULLED A DOUBLE HEADER BY PERFORMING MACBETH TWICE, ONCE IN BROAD RUN ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is ...

Those ominous words from Shakespeare’s Henry IV appeared at the start of the opinion of Senior District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee. She was writing to bar Trump from carrying out his ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Obie Award-winning artist Whitney White’s “Macbeth in Stride,” an ambitious reworking of William Shakespeare’s 1623 “The Tragedie of Macbeth,” completed its two ...

A lot of people are saying that Shakespeare was a great poet. Well, I write greater than him did, or he — whatever — and I can prove it. The Chandos portrait, an oil portrait thought to depict William ...

It is whether she can remember her iambic pentameter. For over a decade, Drunk Shakespeare has created alcohol-soaked renditions of the Bard. The gimmick goes like this: One actor begins by ...

There have been a lot of writers since the 16th century. But there's only one Bard. William Shakespeare, who was born one of eight children 461 years ago on April 23, 1564, lived just 52 years.

William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. It has been long believed that the playwright left his wife behind when ...

Shakespeare’s literature is more than mere words on a page. It is a mirror held up to the values and aspirations of our shared humanity, echoing the very essence of the United Nations.