A detail of the newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust, is seen in central London, Monday March 9, 2009. The portrait, believed to be almost ...

The son of a glove maker and municipal politician from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare seems to have risen from modest means to become one of history’s greatest writers, a peerless poet and ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...

A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...

As the screenwriter of “Anonymous,” the Roland Emmerich film about the Shakespeare authorship question now in production, I read with great interest James Shapiro’s April 11 Times Op-Ed article, “Alas ...

A local author raised in Henderson is looking to bring a piece of England to West Tennessee in talks about his recently published historical thriller novel exploring the mystery of Shakespeare's ...

“Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” by James Shapiro, $26 Only a few people think William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, did not write the plays and poems on which his reputation is based. It ...

A statue of Shakespeare, one of the most revered writers of all time. The validity of Shakespeare’s identity has been questioned many times throughout history, though it is widely accepted that the ...

What do Helen Keller, Sigmund Freud, and Keanu Reeves have in common? They all believe that Shakespeare didn't exist. Rather, they believe that the true genius behind Shakespeare's plays and poems ...

Several Paris theaters geared up to open their seasons with the most famous English playwright. How would the plays be tackled if a woman’s name were attached to them? By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When ...

Our cultural moment seems bent on not letting the good be. Instead, we must either bash past greatness or reconfigure it to suit our present fancies. Novelist Jodi Picoult argues in a new book that ...