On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

William Shakespeare is the world’s greatest playwright. He wrote almost 40 plays and 150 sonnets, he was a master of nearly every genre and he changed the way the world saw the arts. Almost 400 years ...

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover’s son-turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due ...

Who was William Shakespeare? Was he the Bard of Avon, the rags-to-riches playwright whose brilliant command of language produced “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? Or was he a drunk, ...

Very little is actually known about William Shakespeare, actor Derek Jacobi tells us from a theatrical stage to open "Anonymous," which then posits that old Will was a middling actor who couldn't ...

Shakespeare denial is a harmless diversion. No polar bears will die if we don't take measures to correct it. It has the added benefit of being an economic stimulus. When you enter "Shakespeare ...