SOVAS and Independent Press Award winner Sheldon Collins examines how the Valentine legend evolved over 1,800 years ...
A hidden parchment found in Shakespeare’s home may finally unmask its true author, and it’s not who historians believed for ...
When most audiences walked out of Chloé Zhao’s latest film “Hamnet,” they were wracked with grief and soaked in tears. “It’s all terrifying, transcendent and so intimately human,” reads WSN’s own ...
Image Credit: Ian McKellen (Image: lev radin / Shutterstock) Sir Ian McKellen has played kings, wizards, and gods. But at 86, ...
A new twist is as dramatic as any of Shakespeare's plays: the real “Shakespeare” behind a family document has been ...
To be sure, this theatrical adaptation of the beautiful Maggie O’Farrell novel has some stiff competition from the recent ...
Songs From Shakespeare was the perfect Valentine’s weekend fare of love and laughter, and the good news is that it has 4 more ...
The gay actor delivered a 400-year-old monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that fiercely confronts American cruelty toward immigrants in 2026.
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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 ...
Feminist historian Irene Coslet argues the real genius behind the world's most famous plays was Emilia Bassano, a Tudor court poet who used "Shakespeare" as a pen name. According to The Real ...
No, Chloé Zhao did not misspell the name "Hamlet." Yes. As depicted in the book and movie, Agnes was Shakespeare’s wife – although she has been more commonly referred to throughout history as Anne ...