He lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and coined hundreds of new words and phrases that we still use today.

For someone who left behind so little concrete biographical evidence, William Shakespeare has inspired an astonishing number ...

For centuries, academics have sought to uncover more details about Shakespeare's later life—and this discovery sheds new ...

Historians say the newly discovered location changes what we know about Shakespeare's final years.

MUNRO: So it's on the eastern side of the Blackfriars Precinct, and the Blackfriars Precinct was formerly a friary. So it was part of a religious house that was dissolved in the 1530s under Henry ...

Is Prince William, the current heir to the British throne, a direct descendant of William Shakespeare? Prince William’s mother is the late Diana Spencer, whose family can be traced to Baron William ...

Thinking about watching 'William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare' at home? Here’s where you can watch it, including ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options ...

The Bard purchased the property three years before his death in 1616. Had he hoped to spend more time in the city where he ...

In the final act of “The Tempest,” the wizardly Prospero may have drowned his book of spells. But of making books about Shakespeare there is no end. In particular, a set of questions about the ...