Legendary playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in history, April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare's exact date of birth was ...

A centuries-old manuscript once thought to be the work of William Shakespeare’s father has been reattributed to his sister,Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study published in Shakespeare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent in movies. Of ...

For centuries, William Shakespeare’s life in London has carried a strange gap that historians could never fully close. People knew he travelled between Stratford-upon-Avon and the capital. They knew ...

In 1603, a Renaissance dramatist wrote a moving poem about his only son, who died of the plague at the age of seven. The poem calls his “lov’d boy” the “child of my right hand, and joy,” and his ...

April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The world will celebrate him as the greatest writer in the history of the English language. But his lasting fame wasn’t ...

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