The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First ...

William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – died April 23, 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor who is widely believed to have been the greatest dramatist of all time.

From David Lynch to Benjamin Franklin to Queen Elizabeth I, these folks achieved a kind of immortality when their names ended ...

By last week Anderson Baten had finished writing into his 1,500,000 word Complete Dictionary every last scrap of information about Shakespeare he could lay his hands on. Then he journeyed North to ...

Cambridge Dictionary reveals 'manifest' as word of the year after use by celebrities and on social media From Chaucer and Shakespeare to Dua Lipa and Simone Biles - the meaning of the word and how ...

The former home of Samuel Johnson, where he compiled his famous dictionary. It's one of the few surviving historic townhouses in the area. Daunt Books, 83 Marylebone High St, London W1U 4QW ...

The correct phrase, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is “hail-fellow-well-met,” and does not appear in a Shakespeare text.

Shakespeare had also shelled out something like £100 three years earlier to become a shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men actors’ company. He bought a family coat of arms.

Here are six Shakespeare monologues for teens.The sun’s o’ercast with blood: fair day, adieu! Which is the side that I must go withal? I am with both: each army hath a hand; And in their rage ...

If the fact that William Shakespeare's First Folio, that legacy-defining collection of his plays, is turning 400 has passed you by, you can be sure he'd have had a zinger of a putdown to sling ...