In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

William Shakespeare was a late 16th-century English playwright, poet, and actor who is regarded by many as the greatest ...

Professor Emily Anderson gave a presentation about Shakespearean adaptations by playwrights and actors seeking to boost their own popularity on Wednesday night in Mark Taper Hall of Humanities.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Reading a modern English version of Shakespeare just isn't the same. But, uh, not ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." And beyond literature, his influence has shaped language, pop culture, and even psychology. Terms like ...

Let's take a look at London theater and the playwrights who set the stage for Shakespeare. The Renaissance came to England late, thanks to a Hundred Years War that ran long and a civil war to decide ...

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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. While most of us know ...

Thanks, Shakespeare! Let's talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques. This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, ...

No one did it like The Bard, so it’s no surprise that some myths about him and his writing have seeped into our culture over ...

This book, printed in 1634, contains what may be the first Shakespeare play to reach Spain. John Stone A literary historian in Spain has found a rare 1634 edition of one of the last plays William ...

When it comes to performance, many argue the art of subtlety and that less is more. But subtlety has never been less apparent — or necessary — than in Boston University on Broadway’s “Something Rotten ...