"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Perhaps you were forced to read Shakespeare's plays in school, or maybe you're an eternal fan of just ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

After Shakespeare’s death, actors John Heminge and Henry Condell compiled 36 of his plays into a 1623 volume today called the First Folio. The first run printed 750 copies, of which 233 survive, ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

From a Spider-Man Romeo to a chopped-down "As You Like It", this summer's most exciting Shakespeare productions are nothing if not a break from the past. Tom Holland will be "trading his Spidey-senses ...

William Shakespeare was wildly prolific. According to one estimate, his complete works add up to 884,647 words. And all these hundreds of years after his death, people still reference him and his ...

You don’t have to try very hard to get your hands on any Shakespeare play in 2024. More than 400 years since William Shakespeare’s death, it’s easy to take for granted that his scripts are ubiquitous.

He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...