"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and ...

William Shakespeare was a Renaissance-era writer and actor, often referred to as England's national poet, the world's greatest dramatist, and the "Bard of Avon." Despite this widespread success, the ...

Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. Kicking off in September, the lineup of three powerful, joyful, and poignant plays will illustrate ...

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 ...

We define bardolatry as the excessive admiration for William Shakespeare’s life and works. It’s quite a recent phenomenon, all things considered. No one was mobbing his wife Anne, the press wasn’t ...

The document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought. Illustration of William Shakespeare leaving home, bidding farewell to his wife, ...

Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl, and John Everett Millias's painting "Ophelia." One of the most literal Shakespeare references in the album is the title of her first track: "The Fate of Ophelia." ...

Shakespeare Company at UCLA is honoring tradition with a modern flair. Shakespeare Company at UCLA is a student-run theater organization that provides a space for lovers of classic literature and ...

It can be a little tough finding NOLA Project’s newest outdoor theater space. Located just off Lafitte Greenway in Mid-City, the former vehicle inspection station is a tangle of concrete, steel and ...