Statues honouring the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare have been installed ... "The West Midlands is rich in literary history and we are sure these new artworks will bring a sense ...

William Shakespeare's timeless words continue to resonate, offering profound insights into the human condition. From Hamlet's ...

William Shakespeare may have taken some of his best lines from another iconic writer, 14th century poet Dante Alighieri. The Italian, responsible for The Divine Comedy, wrote around 250 years before S ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine ...

An actor dressed as William Shakespeare holds up the quill and leads a parade celebrating the 460th anniversary of his birth in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, England on Saturday. [Photo by Xing ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America. Peter Rose follows James out west.

This maladaption of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” only wants to please its target audience of early-middle-school girls by replacing iambic pentameter with lots and lots of pop ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...