Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean scholar and Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, discusses his book "Dark ...

MAGIC: Charms, rituals and superstition in Elizabethan England will explore the magical folklore, rituals, fears and superstitions that were an everyday part of life in the second half of the 16th ...

"Hamnet," a devastating period drama about the life of William Shakespeare and his family, won top prize Sunday at the ...

A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the ...

First published in 1928, Virgina Woolf’s Orlando throws gender politics into the air. A new adaptation fails to define a problem for Orlando to push back against.

Cats have prowled through York’s history for centuries, leaving paw prints on everything from folklore to architecture. In ...

Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, is one of the best films of 2025, a tender, heartbreaking, and moving film ...

Opinion: The legacies of royal women—from Queen Elizabeth II's stoicism to Queen Elizabeth I’s defiance—remind us of our ...

A previously unknown portrait of what could have been William Shakespeare's gay lover has been revealed. The miniature portrait, painted on the back of a playing card, could be an intimate painting of ...

Martha's rule, which gives worried families and patients the right to a rapid NHS second opinion, has been rolled out in hospitals across England. Hundreds of patients have already benefited from ...

LONDON -- Plenty runs through the minds of players when they uproot their lives and move thousands of miles away; a new country brings new teammates, a new culture and countless small adjustments. Yet ...