Throughout the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, audiences can experience the work of William Shakespeare in new ways. Paul Rolfes, who teaches theater at the College of Charleston and co-directed one of the ...

(AP) Jeremy Irons has a suggestion for Downton Abbey fans: Give William Shakespeare a try, too. Irons is among the prominent hosts of Shakespeare Uncovered, an inventive series tracing the origins of ...

The translator Daniel Hahn makes the case that Shakespeare can be appreciated “even if we don’t hear a single one of his ...

For someone who left behind so little concrete biographical evidence, William Shakespeare has inspired an astonishing number ...

These musicals inspired by Shakespeare imagine what would happen if Juliet didn't die, if "A Midsummer Night's Dream" took place in a nightclub, and more.

Welcome to William Shakespeare done Civil War-style. The new Theatreworks production of the classic 1603 tragedy “Othello,” traditionally set during the wars between Venice and Turkey in the second ...

American English classes were never the same after the 1990s' version of Shakespeare's most prominent play.

It's surprising that John Andrews '65, who has edited editions of Shakespeare's plays and several scholarly journals, wasn't always a Bardophile. Andrews first aspired to be a painter and when ...

To be or not to be? That may be the only question left, as a longstanding Shakespearean mystery is now solved. Curiosities about the exact location of the unparalleled playwright’s “missing” London ...