LONDON — We know her eyes were “raven black” and her hair like “black wires.” But so much about the mysterious “Dark Lady” in Shakespeare’s final sonnets is unknown. In “Emilia,” a new play running ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have ...

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, which saved 18 plays from being lost. Tracing the First Folio’s story, the film also spotlights how New York City’s Public Theater ...

The premise of the Broadway musical & Juliet asks, what if Juliet in Romeo and Juliet did not die? What if this character, who was always seen as tragic, got to rewrite her own story her way. And that ...