Wilton House. Image courtesy of Yale ... it could have been Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In 1865, historian William Johnston Cory recorded in his diary that Lady Herbert had told him of a ...

Anne Hathaway's cottage in Shottery, Warwickshire, is closed to visitors until 31 January A series of essential conservation works at another of William Shakespeare's family homes has begun in ...

John had been granted a coat of arms and it’s probable that Shakespeare had commissioned them, paying the fees himself. A year later he bought New Place, a large house in Stratford. His earlier ...