The theories behind the elusive Ur-Hamlet and its influence on Shakespeare’s tragedy, from disputed authorship to clues ...

It was modern forensics, a class of science the bard would likely have relished. South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray actually dug up Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon garden and had a good ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

Summer in the Northwest is a time for Shakespeare. (Remember to check The Oregonian's June 15 A&E for a preview roundup of coming shows and a wealth of events for Portland-area Bard watchers.) It's ...

Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may ...

A mystery that has baffled the greatest Shakespeare scholars of the day may have been solved by two statisticians. The mystery is whether Shakespeare wrote a 430-word poem recently discovered at ...

For centuries, people have been debating whether William Shakespeare actually wrote the plays credited to him. The new film "Anonymous" (opened October 28 throughout San Diego) suggests that Edward de ...

Three paradoxes about William Shakespeare’s writing will be the focus of an address at Hope College by internationally respected Shakespeare scholar Dr. John Cox, who is a retired member of the ...

A respected Talmudic scholar once called the Kabbalah, the hallowed tradition of Jewish mystical belief and practice, "nonsense," and not worthy of being studied. But the history of nonsense, he said- ...