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

Chloé Zhao's film, like Maggie O'Farrell's book, is built on a thin layer of historical truth. Here's what little we know.

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

Frankenstein' star Jacob Elordi and 'Marty Supreme' actress Gwyneth Paltrow join forces for Actors on Actors and discuss the ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He ...

Dame Judi Dench says she still remembers all the Shakespeare she has performed, but keeps forgetting what she is “doing ...

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

That leaves numerous questions regarding what is and isn't true in Hamnet, and what's been added just for the story's ...

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet explores the family heartbreak and loss that inspired Shakespeare’s ...

Amazon has teamed up with historian Dominic Sandbrook to explore how some of history's greatest thinkers might have organised their ideas using digital writing tools ...

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s ...