The gay actor delivered a 400-year-old monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that fiercely confronts American cruelty toward immigrants in 2026.

Based on the award-winning novel by Maggie O’Farrell, the film dramatizes the lives of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes ...

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One of the great pleasures of reading enough of the plays of William Shakespeare is that, after a while, you feel like you know him. British actor Patrick Stewart famously stated, “...he feels like an ...

Paul Mescal’s portrayal leans more on grief than genius By Jonathan Bate We have a new interpretation of Shakespeare. For her portrayal of William Shakespeare’s wife in the new film Hamnet, Jessie ...

The announcement of her death quoted “Antony & Cleopatra,” saying of her, “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her ...

Dissecting the work of the late 16th- and early 17th-century writer, William Shakespeare, was standard in many high school curricula. From “Romeo and Juliet” to “Macbeth” and “Hamlet,” it was ...

For centuries, William Shakespeare has existed as a monolith. We know the plays, the Sonnets, the academic arguments. What we don’t know, really, is the life: the household, the marriage, the mess.

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88. United Agents said in a statement Saturday that Stoppard died ...