On April 23, 1616, -- 404 years ago -- William Shakespeare died. Centuries later, fans around the world honor him and his work with Shakespeare Day. April 23 is also World Book Day. To celebrate the ...
William Shakespeare's writing legacy lives on in ordinary conversation through sayings like "break the ice"—from The Taming of the Shrew—and "one fell swoop" from Macbeth. The famed poet and dramatist ...
William Shakespeare, the legendary Elizabethan playwright, has risen from the dead. Not literally, of course, but several Shakespearean works and memorabilia from the theatrical production of his ...
This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...
Historically speaking, did you know that: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey performs annually in the state-of-the-art 308-seat F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on ...
One of the wild prophesies in Shakespeare’s haunted tragedy “Macbeth” involves a mysteriously moving forest. On Sunday night, when thunderstorms and flooding were predicted, Capital Classics shifted ...
Learn all about the cast of The Great Escaper, a tender and powerfully moving new drama starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson on MASTERPIECE on PBS.