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He’s the most performed playwright in history. But which of William Shakespeare’s plays do twenty-first century Brits actually like the most? Back in 2016, we marked the celebrations around ...

Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases ...

The point of the story is that, towards the end of Shakespeare’s professional career, people who were interested in plays wanted to know who had written them. That wasn’t always the case.

A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, with a particular rhyme scheme that Shakespeare mastered like no other. The main difference ...

The full canon of Shakespeare's plays performed and recorded by the Royal Shakespeare Company is now available to stream in ...

In 2024, the Lancaster Shakespeare Theatre presented its first play that wasn’t written, or inspired, by William Shakespeare.