William Shakespeare. The name itself brings to mind dusty textbooks, actors in tights, and maybe a high school English class you tried to sleep through. He's one of history’s most celebrated writers, ...

Name a play written by Bartley Campbell. Of course you can’t, nor can just about anyone else alive today. Yet Campbell (1843-1888) was a popular American playwright whose giant ego towered above his ...

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 ...

There are probably more theories than facts about Shakespeare’s life. Where do you stand on this? We have many, many facts about Shakespeare’s life, contained in Schoenbaum’s magisterial Shakespeare: ...

The Maryland Shakespeare Festival presents a series of performances intended to reintroduce adults to the works of William Shakespeare.“This Strange Eventful History: Shakespeare Across Generations,” ...

Many details of Shakespeare's life are shrouded in mystery, from whether he wrote all his plays to whether he was even human. But another enduring mystery attached to the Bard is his relationship with ...

The Oscar-nominated Hamnet exploits the playwright’s fame to manipulate facts of his life and work and encourages viewers to derive fake history from the movies ...