Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, Hamnet tells a heartbreaking story about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, ...

William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman”, according to a new book. It claims that the truth of Shakespearean authorship has been hidden by centuries of “Western-centric and Eurocentric ideology” ...

What really happened to William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their three children?

Warning: Includes SPOILERS for Hamnet! Chloé Zhao's Hamnetis the latest film inspired by and partially adapted from the life and work of legendary writer William Shakespeare, leading to questions ...

William Shakespeare gave the English language more than just poetic sonnets and tragic deaths. He also gave us some of the most delightfully vicious insults ever spoken onstage. These weren’t your ...

Professor Aaron Kitch takes a fresh look at William Shakespeare in his latest book, tracing the influence of classical, medieval, and early modern science on the playwright. Shakespeare maintained a ...

NEW YORK, December 16, 2025 — The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear provides a fresh framework to understand one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies. A wholly unique work of literary criticism, theory, ...