One new play focuses on Gertrude and Ophelia. Another on Queen Margaret. Only one succeeds.

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...

King’s Lynn Town Guides’ annual lecture this year features a key comedy actor in Shakespeare’s plays. The guides’ Diana ...

The King's Lynn Town Guides' annual Diana Bullock Memorial Lecture will focus on Robert Armin, a key comedy actor in Shakespeare's plays. Armin was born in King's Lynn in 1565, and a plaque on Lynn's ...

A SALES boom in comics has halted the alarming decline in children’s reading habits, new figures revealed this week. Kids’ comics and graphic novels have reached an all-time peak, worth almost ...

A sad tale’s best for winter,” says the young prince, but Shakespeare playfully twists that counsel in his late play, “The ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

With screen credits in Gladiator and I, Claudius and stage roles like Shakespeare's Hamlet and Don John, the UK actor tells ...

Spiralling business costs in Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon in Warwickshire have led to businesses closing, ...

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