He’s the most performed playwright in history. But which of William Shakespeare’s plays do twenty-first century Brits actually like the most? Back in 2016, we marked the celebrations around ...

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

The full canon of Shakespeare's plays performed and recorded by the Royal Shakespeare Company is now available to stream in ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

In “Something of Shakespeare in Trump’s lawyers purge ... not so much resemble Donald Trump as Elon Musk — for Dick plays lieutenant to the rebel leader, Jack Cade.

Shakespeare was prolific, with records of his first plays beginning to appear in 1594, from which time he produced roughly two a year until around 1611. His hard work quickly paid off, with signs ...

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

Shakespeare’s play highlights the flawed character of ... As a political leader, Richard III left a legacy in English history as one of England’s worst monarchs. That legacy includes his ...

In Jennifer Tang’s beguiling, gender-swapped staging of Shakespeare’s late play, the ancient king of Britain, Cymbeline, becomes a defiant queen played by Martina Laird with shades of Boudicca. She ...

“Shakespeare wrote that ‘all the world’s a stage,’ but he never imagined it quite like this,” says director Alberto Bonilla. “We’re taking every tragedy, comedy, and history play the ...

In 2024, the Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre presented its first play that wasn’t written, or inspired, by William Shakespeare.

New production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is an extraordinarily imaginative, disarmingly sincere and very funny love ...