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We organise dictionary quizzes across the country. We are also among the first publishers to bring out a Shakespeare dictionary,” said Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya, associate director, marketing, Oxfor ...
The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First Folios and other materials while leaving him oddly diminished.
John Shakespeare, one of Australia’s most loved newspaper artists, completed as many as 20,000 illustrations in his 39 years at the Herald. He died on Monday of cancer, aged 63. Here are some ...
Why are the plays of William Shakespeare still so popular 400 years after his death? "Sunday Morning" talks with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and actor Patrick Page about the Bard's ...
On May 30, the sun will set over Forest Park, and a new world—that of Hamlet, reimagined—will take over Shakespeare Glen. “People are filing in. They’re eating, drinking, talking,” Tom Ridgely, the ...
Kentucky Shakespeare brought live theater to two Louisville parks on Sunday. The group performed Macbeth at both Broad Run Park in the Parklands of Floyds Fork and Robinson Park in Lyndon.
Open-air Shakespeare plays: The Actors' Church In addition to Henry V, The Actors' Church stages some more traditional takes on Shakespeare plays in its garden this summer too.
William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research.
Some scholars have long assumed that William Shakespeare had an unhappy marriage with his wife Anne Hathaway. But fresh analysis of a 17th-century letter suggests otherwise.
The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced. Born With Teeth will explore the relationship ...
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says it is to ‘decolonise its museum collections’ to tackle the claim that the playwright’s ‘legacy promotes white supremacy’ (National Portrait Gallery ...