Described by the BBC as 'the centerpiece' of the BBC's 400 years of Shakespeare's First Folio season, Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius brings together academics, writers, and an a-list cast of actors to ...

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND - Anyone who has ever read a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel or watched an Alfred Hitchcock movie knows that our British cousins enjoy a good mystery. So it should come as no surprise ...

Ask me to say a sentence that sounds like Shakespeare, and I might use a word like “forsooth” and say “doth” instead of “does.” But that’s shortchanging the bard on his sheer linguistic versatility, ...

Today we think of Shakespeare as a genius—the greatest writer of all English writers—but he wasn’t always thought of in those terms. It was eighteenth-century writers like Edmund Burke and Samuel ...

The topic of a panel discussion Monday evening at the Shakespeare Theatre was ambitious enough — “Genius — Are Moral Values Relevant?” — but no less so than the professional ambition of the six ...

William Shakespeare. The name itself brings to mind dusty textbooks, actors in tights, and maybe a high school English class you tried to sleep through. He's one of history’s most celebrated writers, ...

This country has many great heroes and heroines. Take your pick, from Alfred the Great, who beat off the invading Danish hordes, to Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing; from Queen ...

IN an article on Shakespeare in the June number of this Magazine, we spoke of his general comprehensiveness and creativeness, of his method of characterization, and of the identity of his genius with ...

Friday I set off to Stratford-upon-Avon for the annual Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations in his home town. No one knows exactly when Shakespeare was born on but for a long time April 23 has been the ...