Here are our top 6 Shakespeare plays to (re)discover ... madness and betrayal. The character of Hamlet, with his famous line “To be or not to be,” remains one of the most complex and ...

His plays and characters are some of the most adapted ... Pretty good for a “silly play”, if you ask me. Perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth is a weighty tale, delving ...

Al Pacino plays the titular Italian merchant in the classic comedy. Kenneth Branagh took on Shakespeare's most famous character in 1996 when he starred in and directed Hamlet in 1996. Branagh took ...

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and the women of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” take center stage to tell their own ...

On a recent edition of CBS Sunday Morning, the show devoted a segment to the most famous playwright of all time: William ...

Why are the plays of William Shakespeare still so popular 400 years after his death? "Sunday Morning" talks with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and actor Patrick Page about the Bard's enduring ...

Phil Zimbardo’s new book, Psychology According to Shakespeare ... and simple history plays. In so doing, we can see how the majority are about the evolution of the characters’ human development.

The famous Shakespeare play, which is about a Scottish king’s lust for power and the dangerous lengths he’ll go to to claim it, gets a contemporary setting in this production, plus a thrust, putting ...