Harvey Weinstein’s aggressive FYC strategy led to 13 Academy Award nominations for the romantic comedy and a major upset win.

She founded Shakespeare & Company and championed a more visceral, less mannered approach to performing and interpreting ...

Director Chloe Zhao’s earthy and sensuous film Hamnet is based on the book by Maggie O’ Farrell, who also co-wrote the ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, praised critically. The film explores William Shakespeare's ...

If there is anything that years of experiments in the genre have taught us, it’s that it’s difficult to make a good film ...

Paul Mescal has denied the suggestion that he is too good-looking to play William Shakespeare. The Irish actor, 29, stars as ...

Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English language.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By James Shapiro THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By Lena Cowen Orlin Much of the evidence ...

William Shakespeare had a son, Hamnet, who likely inspired one of his most famous plays and who died when he was 11 years old. Novelist Maggie O'Farrell was disappointed that more people weren't ...

Only portrait of dramatist in life hung unidentified for centuries. LONDON, March 9, 2009— -- The only portrait of William Shakespeare made during his life has been discovered in the private ...