"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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." And beyond literature, his influence has shaped language, pop culture, and even psychology. Terms like ...

Scholars have debated for centuries whether an earlier play shaped the version we know today. Here’s the evidence.

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...

A complete set of Shakespeare’s First through Fourth Folios will go to auction May 23 at Sotheby’s in London. The First Folio, printed in 1623, preserved plays like "Macbeth" and "The Tempest" that ...

Let’s just say this right up front: no one is sure how much of “Pericles” was actually written by Shakespeare. The majority of the play is so far from Shakespeare’s style, in fact, that many scholars ...

LONDON — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ($6 million) at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house ...

LENOX — The way Shakespeare & Company artistic director Allyn Burrows sees it, there's no reason why contemporary plays — brand new, in development or established — shouldn’t find a home at a theater ...