Known as England’s National Poet, The Bard or The Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare is considered to be the “greatest writer ...

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 ...

Premieres Fridays, October 12-26 on PBS (check local listings), streams the following day at pbs.org/shakespeareuncovered and on PBS apps Helen Hunt, F. Murray ...

The drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley blends facts about the Bard with fiction.

I know what you're thinking: Shakespeare, ugh! Is this one of those take-your-medicine, eat-your-spinach, good-for-you stories I should watch but really don't WANT to watch? Well, fear not! Ira Glass, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among Shakespeare scholars, those five works are known as his traditionally understood “race plays” and include characters who are ...

The movie arrives July 6 on Netflix and explores how Hamnet’s death may have inspired ‘Hamlet.’ ...

Reporting from London — After decades of directing and acting in Shakespeare’s plays onscreen and in the theater, Kenneth Branagh is finally doing the inevitable: playing William Shakespeare himself.