William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...

The belief that his son’s death inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet is itself inspired by an enduring, compelling, and highly questionable theory.

Chloé Zhao's film, like Maggie O'Farrell's book, is built on a thin layer of historical truth. Here's what little we know.

What killed Shakespeare's 11-year-old son Hamnet in 1596? The 400-year mystery behind the boy who inspired Hamlet, explained.

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of ...

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

This article begins by reviewing recent arguments that Shakespeare biographers simply do not know enough to write a true life and, thus, tend to make “bricks without straw”. This sense of incompletion ...

Is Prince William, the current heir to the British throne, a direct descendant of William Shakespeare? Prince William’s mother is the late Diana Spencer, whose family can be traced to Baron William ...

The title of Daniel Swift’s book “The Dream Factory,” about the creative and capitalist conditions of Elizabethan drama, ...