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

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

William Shakespeare ... acquaintances and Shakespeare himself surface as echoes from the past and take roles in the plays, perhaps as recollections of real moments from his life which inspired ...

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 ...