Vintage engraving circa late 19th century, engraved by Sir John Gilbert, and edited by Howard Staunton (1882) to illustrate William Shakespeare's play. Digital restoration without AI by pictore.

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

Shakespeare’s parents had been Catholics, and the tension between the new and old religions can be seen in much of his work. William’s father, John Shakespeare, was a member of the borough ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting, and romancing, in London If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

In 1909, wealthy widow Susie W. Allgood marketed a plush marsupial inspired by President William Howard Taft. But children ...

He is ‘a system of northern lights, an aurora borealis visible where most of us will never go … almost too vast to apprehend’. Whereas Marlowe drew ‘cartoons’ and Ben Jonson ‘ideograms’, Shakespeare ...

Worried locals fear Shakespeare’s hometown is in “terminal decline” after an alarming number of businesses closed - meanwhile Turkish barber shops are booming. Since last summer five popular ...

ROCK SPRINGS -- Experience the power, politics, and passion of Shakespeare as the Utah Shakespeare Festival presents Henry IV at the Broadway Theater on March 29 at 7 p.m. As part of the theater ...

That is the question, or at least one of them, for anybody looking to make a movement piece out of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” This past weekend at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre ...

Ben Grimm is better known as the Fantastic Four's Thing, though fans have seen several versions of the character appear in ...

I write these words as a devout Shakespearean: a member of a religion, a cult, that worships William Shakespeare. His words are clearly divinely inspired; no mere mortal could weave such magic.

THE phrase "ides of March" (the 15th day of March in ancient Roman calendar) has carried a sense of foreboding ever since William Shakespeare popularized it through his play, "Julius Caesar." In the ...