Television history is littered with sub-par adaptations, but with some big name numbers coming soon – including King Lear and Hamlet – the material is still too attractive to ignore It’s generally ...

Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases that are ...

Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare's handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in ...

I bought a book for my wife yesterday at Foyles in London, which I couldn't manage to stop reading once I had started. It's a new Bill Bryson book called Shakespeare: The World as Stage and parses the ...

I’ve met Shakespeare’s ghost. The encounter was more drudgery than mystery, I’m afraid. Twenty years ago, my doctoral supervisor casually informed me that I would need to read every tragedy written in ...

Several years back, an autograph dealer in Massachusetts offered to sell us a napkin purportedly signed by William Shakespeare from the Mermaid Tavern, a reputed drinking haunt of the English bard.

The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday March 21 2010 This article referred to the Marlowe Society as "hierophants" who believe that Christopher Marlowe ...