Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and poet. His works have been translated into 80 languages, including Star Trek’s Klingon. He helped shape the English we use today ...

William Shakespeare is revered around the world as the greatest playwright to have ever lived. But Shakespeare was much more than just a man of the theatre. He was also a celebrated poet, a family ...

A collection of interactive articles exploring the life, work and legacy of the Bard. William Shakespeare's plays have entertained, amused and educated us for centuries. He is England’s most ...

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 was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and married Anne Hathaway in 1582. They had three children. Shakespeare spent most of his professional life with an acting company in London ...

William Shakespeare lived two lives. In London he was an actor and an author who wrote successful plays and was famous for his poems. In his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon, he had a wife and ...

In 1757, nearly 150 years after William Shakespeare’s death, a pamphlet was found in the rafters of his childhood home. Handwritten and signed by a ‘J. Shakespeare,’ the document was a ...

It explores Shakespeare's life in Elizabethan England, his upbringing in Stratford, and the historical context of his plays. The text emphasizes that Shakespeare's characters and themes resonate with ...

FEMALE PRESENTERI’m talking about you, not to you. Writer, poet, player and hisstory begins right here in London. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREWhat? No I was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. FEMALE PRESENTERWhat?