Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

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Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...

Is Prince William, the current heir to the British throne, a direct descendant of William Shakespeare? Prince William’s mother is the late Diana Spencer, whose family can be traced to Baron William ...

At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and spin them into dizzying riffs of conjecture. At their worst they reshuffle old ...

How do you tell the story of the world’s greatest literary career when the literary part is a gaping hole, “a jigsaw puzzle for which most of the pieces are missing,” as one scholar put it? You get ...

In a new biography, the founder of New Historicism finds a paper trail that links Shakespeare’s life, beliefs, and moralityColloquy: Read the transcript of an online discussion about whether a new ...

Joan’s hidden writings shed light on her secret Catholic beliefs and add a new dimension to the Shakespeare family’s mysterious legacy. This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. In the annals ...