A collection of William Shakespeare books published over 300 years ago are set to go on auction where they are expected to fetch between £3.5 and £4.5 million. The four folios are believed to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman”, according to a new book. It claims that the truth of Shakespearean authorship has ...

On April 23 literature lovers around the planet celebrated the 452 nd birthday of William Shakespeare. The date also happened to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s 1616 death, an epic ...

On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

The author of a new book about William Shakespeare is claiming that the works of the famed playwright were actually written by a black, Jewish woman. The book, “The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

Early last year, doing research for a book, I started to spend more and more of each day thinking about that question. The thing is, it seems like we should know what he looked like – the greatest ...