No one did it like The Bard, so it’s no surprise that some myths about him and his writing have seeped into our culture over ...

Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths — ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is ...

Name a play written by Bartley Campbell. Of course you can’t, nor can just about anyone else alive today. Yet Campbell (1843-1888) was a popular American playwright whose giant ego towered above his ...

There are probably more theories than facts about Shakespeare’s life. Where do you stand on this? We have many, many facts about Shakespeare’s life, contained in Schoenbaum’s magisterial Shakespeare: ...

William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. It has been long believed that the playwright left his wife behind when he ...

A 400-year-old spirit has been making its presence known. This voice from a long-gone past isn’t a Halloween haunt, though. It’s just never gone away. So is this an especially fruitful time for ...