"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

Scholars have debated for centuries whether an earlier play shaped the version we know today. Here’s the evidence.

After Shakespeare’s death, actors John Heminge and Henry Condell compiled 36 of his plays into a 1623 volume today called the First Folio. The first run printed 750 copies, of which 233 survive, ...

William Shakespeare was wildly prolific. According to one estimate, his complete works add up to 884,647 words. And all these hundreds of years after his death, people still reference him and his ...

You don’t have to try very hard to get your hands on any Shakespeare play in 2024. More than 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death, it’s easy to take for granted that his scripts are ubiquitous.

He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...