Now here’s a period drama. William Shakespeare’s words and sexuality have long been the subject of speculation, but researchers believe their labor has finally confirmed the Bard’s love preferences.

Ann Keay Beneduce, Author, William Shakespeare, Author, Gennady Spirin, Author Philomel Books $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-22764-6 Prospero-like in their artistry, Spirin's dazzling watercolors dominate ...

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of ...

On Dec. 5, 1623, a fashionable young man-about-town called Sir Edward Dering visited St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard, London’s main bookselling hub. There he bought two playbooks, a book in Latin and a ...

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I ...

Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company tell NPR's Scott Simon about their book, Pop-Up Shakespeare, and how Shakespeare's plays are kind of like Looney Tunes. Shakespeare - ...

Many Irish people will have encountered Shakespeare for the first time through studying plays such as Julius Caesar and Macbeth in secondary school. But what if these plays had never been published?

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler has never liked “The Taming of the Shrew.” “I have no favorite moments in this play,” Tyler said. “I first read it in college and disliked it intensely, and ...

A literature scholar has discovered a William Shakespeare First Folio, one of the rarest and most valuable books in the world, at a library in a small French town, the Guardian reports. The book, ...