Ann Keay Beneduce, Author, William Shakespeare, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22764-6 Prospero-like in their artistry, Spirin's dazzling watercolors dominate ...

William Shakespeare, often called the greatest playwright in history, created works that explore love, power, ambition, ...

Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences.

On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

Four hundred years ago, in 1623, a book of Shakespeare’s plays was published. This wasn’t just any book: It marked the first time all of Shakespeare’s works were published together — no mean feat back ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company tell NPR's Scott Simon about their book, Pop-Up Shakespeare, and how Shakespeare's plays are kind of like Looney Tunes. Shakespeare - ...

In “The Riverside Shakespeare,” a magisterial compendium that has illumined lives and overloaded bookshelves for decades, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” appears in small print that runs for 27 pages. In a ...

The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare (artist and authenticity unconfirmed). Held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. On April 25, 1616, in a small town 100 miles northwest of London known ...

Because I did not attend college and spent all but one year of high school at home with arthritis following rheumatic fever, I had the good fortune to discover Shakespeare on my own. We were rural ...