His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

What is “happiness” – and who gets to be happy? Since 2012, the World Happiness Report has measured and compared data from ...

Today is The Bard's 461st birthday and Sotheby's auction house has announced the sale of a set of First, Second, Third and ...

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up.

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and ...

Shakespeare folios expected to fetch more than £3.5m at auction - The books were published between 1623 and 1685.

A complete set of the earliest published editions of William Shakespeare’s plays is going up for auction at Sotheby’s next ...