Legendary playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in history, April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare's exact date of birth was ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and ...

A centuries-old manuscript once thought to be the work of William Shakespeare’s father has been reattributed to his sister,Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study published in Shakespeare ...

Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare, and almost everything known about him comes from sparse parish records, fueling centuries of speculation about his short life and his ...