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

The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is "exploitative" and lacks subtlety.

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Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get ...

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

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

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He ...

Stoppard died "peacefully" at his home in southern England, according to a statement from United Agents on Saturday.