Shakespeare is the literature that makes us human and his biggest public advocate won’t even wear a ruff, and I mean, come on. Of course, identity is made up of all kinds of things: we build it out of ...

What do Helen Keller, Sigmund Freud, and Keanu Reeves have in common? They all believe that Shakespeare didn't exist. Rather, they believe that the true genius behind Shakespeare's plays and poems ...

Sir Ian McKellen delivered a powerful Shakespearean monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, taking the internet by ...

Theater companies focusing on Shakespeare are part of a long and illustrious local tradition. My own introduction to William Shakespeare’s plays can be traced back to childhood in the 1950s when our ...

Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed have put a psychological thriller spin on one of William Shakespeare's most iconic works, Hamlet. Karia and Ahmed discussed the reimagining with Collider's Steve Weintraub at ...

Where is it written “I am the bard thy god, thou shalt have no other bards before me”? Shakespeare is one of England’s, Europe’s, the world’s greatest writers. If you asked me to name the best play of ...

For such a physically slight, ballerina-like figure, Julie Taymor is metaphysically fierce. The fact that she arrives at our rendezvous in a New York bistro buzzing with adrenaline, having just come ...