Steggle’s discovery sets the record straight on an important document in Shakespeare family history ... key indicator that Joan was likely the writer. Saint Winifred’s life story centered ...

Writer, poet, player and his story begins ... Some academics believe that Shakespeare’s family influenced some of the themes and characters from his plays. For example, twins appear in several ...

Watch Helen Hackett, Professor of English Literature at UCL and author of The Elizabethan Mind (2022), explore some of the lesser-known female writers buried or memorialised ... of the A-Level English ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a writer; he’s a literary force that continues to influence and inspire centuries ...

If the writer was indeed John Shakespeare ... who outlived her tradesman husband and had four children in the old Shakespeare family house, had to have been the secret Catholic supporter.

We know his family was well off and that hewas ... an Italian writer writing at the same time as Shakespeare. Adapting the work of other writers was very common at the time. Although he borrowed ...