"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 Paul Mescal, praised critically. The film explores William Shakespeare's ...

Arts editor Nina Nannar speaks to the director and stars of the film, which tells the largely unknown story of William ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

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 ...

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 ...