Ian McKellen, who has spent his career interpreting Shakespearean protagonists from Richard III to King Lear, voiced his ...

Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers about events related to the movie Hamnet. Hamnet examines the unlikely love story of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes, along with the intense grief ...

William Shakespeare was a Renaissance-era writer and actor, often referred to as England's national poet, the world's greatest dramatist, and the "Bard of Avon." Despite this widespread success, the ...

A secret parchment has resurfaced, rewriting the Bard’s sketchy family history.

Many details of Shakespeare's life are shrouded in mystery, from whether he wrote all his plays to whether he was even human. But another enduring mystery attached to the Bard is his relationship with ...