William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English poet — and perhaps one of the greatest poets of any language — to put pen to ...

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." ...

In fact, much of Shakespeare’s biographical narrative consists of things he might have done, between that baptismal day in April 1564 and the day of his death, on what was putatively his fifty-second ...

Shakespeare’s culture and society made much more space for the articulation of ... compulsive desire for a “lovely boy” across 126 poems. ... writing some years after Shakespeare’s death, ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

Making a case for Shakespeare, 400 years after his death ... “The poet is one of our best sources, ... Around 750 copies of Shakespeare’s collected plays were originally printed in 1623.