A 17th Century will which sparked a family row over William Shakespeare's grand Stratford-upon-Avon home has been found. The document, drawn up by Thomas Nash on 25 August 1642, was discovered by Dr ...

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

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 ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. In the annals of William Shakespeare’s legacy, a twist has emerged that’s practically as dramatic as any of the Bard’s plays: the real “Shakespeare” ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, praised critically. The film explores William Shakespeare's ...

One of the great pleasures of reading enough of the plays of William Shakespeare is that, after a while, you feel like you know him. British actor Patrick Stewart famously stated, “...he feels like an ...

Few historical movies make you want to know the real story behind them more than Hamnet. And few areas of popular history have so few answers to offer as the biography of the 16th-century Shakespeare ...

Since Elizabethan times, Western theater has witnessed four centuries of family dramas—a few great, many dreadful. But still no playwright matches Shakespeare’s archetypal but unsentimental visions of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1757, a document signed “J. Shakespeare” was found in the Shakespeare family home, long attributed to William’s father, John. A study reveals the ...