So you haven't read Othello by William Shakespeare? Then get ready for the most villainous, absolutely devious, and ...

The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...

On Shakespeare’s birthday, we explore why his villains—brutally honest, self-aware, and unapologetic still resonate more ...

Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia ...

The costume designer details how she and her associate costume designer James Nguyen built the core of the modernized ...

Twelve of the darkest Shakespearean and Jacobean plays that expose the brutal cost of ambition, betrayal, and madness with ...

A British scholar’s analysis of a 17th-century letter fragment challenges long-held beliefs about the Bard’s marriage.

Growing up, the Bard was for white kids. Now in his forties, our columnist—professor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner—reads ...

Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate ...