A secret parchment has resurfaced, rewriting the Bard’s sketchy family history.

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England, Feb 18 (Reuters) - On a cloudy winter's day, visitors stream into ...

Shakespeare's late son Hamnet was real, but there's a lot we don't know.

With the Nov. 26 cinematic release of Hamnet, CU Boulder scholars consider what we actually know about the famed playwright and why we’re still reading him four centuries later “Friends, Romans, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare, and almost everything known about him comes from sparse parish records ...

On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway was 26 when she married the 18-year-old Bard. New findings reveal they may have had ...

Where it’s from: The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Sc 7 The full quote: “All that glisters is not gold—Often have you heard that told.” Although we tend to say “glitters” rather than “glisters” these ...