Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare's handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in ...

I bought a book for my wife yesterday at Foyles in London, which I couldn't manage to stop reading once I had started. It's a new Bill Bryson book called Shakespeare: The World as Stage and parses the ...

He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...

I’ve met Shakespeare’s ghost. The encounter was more drudgery than mystery, I’m afraid. Twenty years ago, my doctoral supervisor casually informed me that I would need to read every tragedy written in ...