Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

You don't get this much swagger by holding back your insults. Image via Wikipedia. William Shakespeare gave the English ...

In its pledge to ‘decolonize’ the Bard’s legacy, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has forsaken its historical mission in ...

The local clan of riverside turkey buzzards — or vultures if you want to get persnickety about proper nomenclature — have recently returned to their customary seasonal residence on the wooded island ...

A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.