This may be the real face of William Shakespeare. The portrait, never before seen in Britain, is the only one known to have been completed while the Bard was still alive. Painted on an oak board ...

In the 17th century, the Bard's plays were preserved for posterity in the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios. Now, all ...

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 ...

Without the First Folio, “we wouldn’t even be talking about Shakespeare,” Emma Smith, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of Oxford, told Smithsonian magazine’s Ellen Wexler in 2023 ...