Theater review by Raven SnookJacob Ming-Trent has come to preach salvation in his vivacious memoir How Shakespeare Saved My ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...

Editor’s Note: This article is one in a series of responses to Elizabeth Winkler’s article, “Was Shakespeare a Woman?,” in the June issue of the magazine. One reason speculation has taken this turn is ...

The actor Jacob Ming-Trent faced numerous rejections. But in this solo play at the Public, he tells how he found redemption through the playwright’s worlds and words.

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How do you tell the story of the world’s greatest literary career when the literary part is a gaping hole, “a jigsaw puzzle for which most of the pieces are missing,” as one scholar put it? You get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare, and almost everything known about him comes from sparse parish records ...

Like the 2020 Maggie O'Farrell novel that inspired it, the movie blends documented elements of Shakespeare's family life with fictional events to illustrate the hazards of 16th century England. But ...

Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago, but if blogger Joe Muldoon had it his way, we would all still speak like the Bard. Muldoon talks about his op-ed, "We Can't All Be Shakespeare — But We Could Try ...