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Officially titled 'Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,' the more than 900-page tome collected together 36 of the Renaissance writer’s plays for the first time.
What do you know about the greatest writer in the English language of all time? Sure, you might be familiar with his most famous plays, like Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo & Juliet. But did you know ...
William Shakespeare took his last breath on his birthday 23 April, 1661 at the age of 52 years. Break the ice Shakespeare’s phrase have been adopted by the English language.
Biography.com editor Catherine explains how a lost letter to his wife, Anne Hathaway, provides fresh insight into the Bard's ...
A Shakespeare scholar has claimed that the bard wrote Hamlet after he saw a ‘terrible’ play with the same name. Daniel Swift said that William Shakespeare saw a play called Hamlet 15 years before ...
The life story of William Shakespeare, as it’s usually told, is that he left Stratford-upon-Avon to make his name in the London theaters. It’s been thought that his wife, ...
William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many facts about his life remain shrouded in mystery.