On this date — April 23, 1616 — the creator of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” left the beauty of this world. To us, he bequeathed his tragedies and ...

In William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” shortly after smooth Mark Antony has come up with the soaring “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” and self-serv… ...

A man dressed in themed attire recites one of the 154 Shakespeare sonnets aloud in Harvard Square Saturday afternoon at the “Shakespeare Sonnet Slam,” which honored the 400th anniversary of ...

Shakespeare’s death, 400 years later. DANNY TYREE. COLUMNIST. To satirize, or not to satirize. That is the question. April 23, 2016. is the 400th anniversary of the death of playwright, poet, ...

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on.

William Shakespeare was a Renaissance-era writer and actor, often referred to as England's national poet, the world's greatest dramatist, and the "Bard of Avon." ...

In fact, much of Shakespeare’s biographical narrative consists of things he might have done, between that baptismal day in April 1564 and the day of his death, on what was putatively his fifty-second ...

Shakespeare’s culture and society made much more space for the articulation of ... compulsive desire for a “lovely boy” across 126 poems. ... writing some years after Shakespeare’s death, ...

Poet, playwright, actor and theatrical-company shareholder, William Shakespeare (sometimes spelled Shakspeare, or Shagspere, or Shaxpere, or Shaxberd, 1 or any number of blessed ways) died today ...

“To be or not to be,” said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, “that is the question.” Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question. The poet, playwright, actor ...