Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

So claimed Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s friend and contemporary upon the man’s passing in 1616 at age 52. Which has turned out to be the case. Shockingly, it almost wasn’t so. Ten years after the ...

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as William Shakespeare and his wife in Chloé Zhao’s film, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s ...

When it comes to literary works on film, no one touches William Shakespeare. The 38 plays he wrote between 1589 and 1616, the year of his death, account for around 1,220 big- and small-screen ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of ...

For some 400 years now, Shakespeare has meant infinitely various things to infinitely varied people. In memoirs by Bob Smith and Herman Gollob, we see two of the more diverse uses to which the Bard ...

Chloé Zhao, director of the Oscar-winning "Nomadland," returns with a sodden, sorrowful fiction about Shakespeare's home life ...

“The crowd enjoys the show because of the utter absurdity of it all: Shakespearean language combined with modern colloquialisms, audience participation, combining the 400-year-old plays with fairy ...

Shakespeare Company at UCLA is honoring tradition with a modern flair. Shakespeare Company at UCLA is a student-run theater organization that provides a space for lovers of classic literature and ...

This fictionalized story from the life of Shakespeare makes for a well-constructed disappointment from Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, bolstered by strong performances from leads Paul Mescal and Jessie ...

While the current season of Bard on the Beach continues until September 24, Bard Artistic Director Christopher Gaze has announced the lineup for the Festival's 34th Season, which will run from June to ...

“Circus & The Bard,” a collaboration between Shakespeare & Company and the Florida-based Spirit of the Circus, is an effort to make the external as visceral as the internal. As it turns out, the ...