People loved watching plays. They were as popular then as TV shows are now and some of the actors became just as famous. One of these actors was William Shakespeare. He's still famous today.

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

William Shakespeare's signature in an undated document ... (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written. In this poem, Shakespeare shows that true love ...

Death is always tragic, particularly when it occurs on a person's date of birth, and there are many famous people who have ...

That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare wrote this famous phrase for the play Romeo and Juliet to convey the meaninglessness of surnames and ...

For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. The movie industry has looked to those same works to produce some of the best adaptations of his work ...

With a little something for young adults, a little something for a more mature audience and lots of inside jokes for ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University ... Wilson A collection of ten digital portraits of famous thespians—including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter—are on view at ...

By the last years of Elizabeth I's reign Shakespeare was well established as a famous poet and playwright and was called upon to perform several of his plays before the Queen at court. In 1598 the ...