This month marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The Bard of Avon died suddenly on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. The cause remains a mystery, though there was ...

William Shakespeare, renowned playwright and poet, died on April 23, 1616. Four hundred years later, a large crowd gathered Saturday in Harvard Square to read aloud all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ...

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, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...

“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 and ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’ergreen my bad, my good allow? You are my all the world, and I ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- To tweet or not to tweet. Today, on the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare will live on Twitter's stage. A 140 character limit is not stopping Twitter from celebrating ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the author of 38 or so plays, more than 150 sonnets and two long narrative poems. Shakespeare is one of the greatest figures ...

Philip Schwyzer receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the European Research Council. The image of a man holding a skull while ruminating upon mortality will always call Hamlet, and ...