William was the third of eight children, though his two elder siblings did not survive childhood. Details of Shakespeare’s schooling are unknown. It is likely that he began his education at the ...

Beware the Ides of March? Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emerita Cynthia Lewis explores how prophets in Shakespeare's ...

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 ...

Shakespeare!” Olalde announced. They draw, do research and talk about the man whose work has inspired us for centuries. “I only knew, like, like his name was William Shakespeare, that’s the ...

A university in the United Kingdom placed over 200 trigger warnings on William Shakespeare readings after students with past ...

William Shakespeare is widely attributed as the author of 39 plays and 154 sonnets. They are lauded as works of poetic and ...