Imagine being able to meet Cleopatra, see the piercing gaze of Elizabeth I on an ultra-HD screen or even shake hands (virtually) with William Shakespeare. Science fiction? Not quite. Thanks to ...

Jodi Picoult reportedly claimed Shakespeare isn't real in March 2025, after previously stating that Emilia Bassano wrote some ...

Here's a test: close your eyes and in your mind picture what William Shakespeare looked like. Almost certainly you're thinking of a middle-aged man with a receding hairline and pointy beard ...

William Shakespeare is widely attributed as the author of 39 plays and 154 sonnets. They are lauded as works of poetic and ...

Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...

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 ...