In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won $30 million in the Florida lottery, ultimately choosing to take a $17 million lump-sum payout. Shakespeare was generous with his winnings, helping friends and family ...

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio which was stolen 25 years ago is to go on display for the first time in more than a decade. The book was taken from Durham University's Cosin's Library in 1998 and ...

Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of our most successful playwright shows a profound misunderstanding of who or wh ...

The book was stolen from Durham University’s Cosin Library in 1998 and it reappeared at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington ... was the first collection of the Bard’s plays and without it, ...

The gripping tale of how a 400-year-old edition of the first collection of William Shakespeare plays was stolen, recovered and restored is to be explored in a new UK exhibition, it was announced ...

What makes 'Cymbeline' a potent play for our age of anxiety is the collapse of everything known and the dissolving of old ...