That leaves numerous questions regarding what is and isn't true in Hamnet, and what's been added just for the story's ...

Chloé Zhao's film, like Maggie O'Farrell's book, is built on a thin layer of historical truth. Here's what little we know.

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

The monthly book club at Bogart’s Coffee House is reading “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” by Stephen Greenblatt. The biography will be discussed from 7 to 9 p.m. on April 26, ...

Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...

Is Prince William, the current heir to the British throne, a direct descendant of William Shakespeare? Prince William’s mother is the late Diana Spencer, whose family can be traced to Baron William ...

Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English language.

There Was a Starre Daunst, and Under That Was I Borne William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George’s Day. The date may in fact have been 21 April or 22 ...