Arts editor Nina Nannar speaks to the director and stars of the film, which tells the largely unknown story of William ...

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 ...

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” behind a centuries-old family document has been ...

"Hamnet," a devastating period drama about the life of William Shakespeare and his family, won top prize Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The heart-wrenching movie stars Paul Mescal ...

Dame Judi Dench turns historical detective to solve the greatest mystery of her past. Did one of her ancestors actually meet ...

Judi Dench and William Shakespeare are pretty much synonymous with each other. He has played a momentous part in her career, ...

The portrait hung above the family TV for 50 years before they realized it might be Shakespeare. The portrait hung above the Wadlow family’s television set for 50 years. While watching a program about ...

An appeal for help in raising £500,000 has been launched towards the restoration of a historic building that once housed William Shakespeare's family. Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon was damaged ...