Menu Theatre Department’s Approach to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Playwright Biography: William Shakespeare Summary and Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Adaptations and Contemporary Resonances ...

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 ...

How do you tell the story of the world’s greatest literary career when the literary part is a gaping hole, “a jigsaw puzzle for which most of the pieces are missing,” as one scholar put it? You get ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article is one in a series of responses to Elizabeth Winkler’s article, “Was Shakespeare a Woman?,” in the June issue of the magazine. One reason speculation has taken this turn is ...

In a new biography, the founder of New Historicism finds a paper trail that links Shakespeare’s life, beliefs, and moralityColloquy: Read the transcript of an online discussion about whether a new ...

In “Hamlet,” a son is haunted by the ghost of his dead father. In All is True, a partially fictionalized biopic of William Shakespeare late in his life, it’s the other way around: The father is ...