Debut actors Marni Duggan and Galaxie Clear star as BFFs Flic and Minna, two talented students at an all-girls boarding ...

A “spirit mirror” believed to have been used by Queen Elizabeth I’s famed political advisor John Dee was crafted in Aztec Mexico around 500 years ago, reinforcing the idea that the mirror was used by ...

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For someone who left behind so little concrete biographical evidence, William Shakespeare has inspired an astonishing number of films attempting to explain him. Over the years, cinema has returned to ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent ...

One day in 1926 a husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about “AABENRAA, a town of Denmark.

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

Well, like everyone else with a heavy investment in Shakespeare, I’ve been pondering their evidence since the news broke in April and their claim seems to be nonsense — though nonsense of a delicious ...

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