Illustration of Shakespeare reciting "Hamlet" to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. People rarely argue over the question, “Who is the greatest writer of all time?” Even though several literary ...

Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Following a stellar sell-out run, four of Shakespeare’s (in)famous characters are ...

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public Theater ...

Cinema’s fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don’t try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

Whether it’s the perpetually bloodstained Lady Macbeth or the master manipulator Iago, the best Shakespearean villains are defined not only by their body count and betrayals, but by their delicious ...

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The Berkshires-based theater troupe will present "Twelfth Night" and the return of a circus-Bard mashup production.

Cicely Berry, whose unorthodox exercises released actors’ minds to feel the sound and muscularity of Shakespeare’s verse for nearly a half-century as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice director, ...

Where it’s from: The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Sc 7 The full quote: “All that glisters is not gold—Often have you heard that told.” Although we tend to say “glitters” rather than “glisters” these ...

William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello” is often the first play that comes to mind when people think of Shakespeare and race. And if not “Othello,” then folks usually name “The Merchant of ...

As You Like It, set at a hippie commune in the 1960s, comes to Shakespeare Theatre Company this December for Shakespeare Everywhere Festival; courtesy of STC Four hundred years after this momentous ...