The Bard gave us ‘bedazzled’ and so many other words—but there are a few cases where words we thought he created actually originated earlier. With that in mind, here are 21 examples of words that ...

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays 35 Denton Chikura and Tonderai ...

A scholar recently discovered the exact location of the bard’s London home—shedding light on his final years and revealing new insights into how women inherited property in the 17 th century. Scholars ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and their ...

As the Bard turns 462, our theatre critic judges his complete dramatic works. Where does your favourite come? Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became ...

Jennifer is a List Writer for Collider. She is also a contributing writer for TODAY Parents, Her View From Home, and Scary Mommy. She's a wife and mother of four kiddos and two fur babies. Hobbies ...

Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and poet. His works have been translated into 80 languages, including Star Trek’s Klingon. He helped shape the English we use today, introducing up ...

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In their view, there was almost no actual 'show' to speak of, no theme, no message and no social context, just explicit material designed to push boundaries.

Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital. By Sarah Bahr The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated ...