All Stories: Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, the name synonymous with theatrical brilliance, has surprisingly faced questions about his own role in creating his iconic works. While most accept...

To do Shakespeare and be an American playing an English king is properly intimidating, he says.

The Netflix film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month.

Britain's Prince Charles unveiled a statue of William Shakespeare in Havana when he took to the streets of old city

The growing popularity of English as a medium of instruction at Dutch universities is ringing alarm bells among local lecturers and students.

DAMASCUS: Its fame is such that the damask rose features in Shakespeare, but for Syrian farmers growing the flower that produces the heady-scented oil used to flavour Turkish delight, tragedy may await.

LONDON: A British magazine has published an image of a figure that it says is the first and only known demonstrably authentic portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

If you’ve ever had a career in the arts, or know someone who has, you are likely aware that saying the word “Macbeth” inside a theatre is strictly taboo unless one is rehearsing or in the midst of performing Shakespeare’s dark tragedy.

LONDON: To download or not to download, perchance to stream... that is the question a new digital project hopes to solve by making performances of Shakespeare's plays available to a global audience on demand for the first time.