In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”.

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...

St George's Day preparations are underway as people up and down England get ready to celebrate.

In confirming the precise location of William Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house, a British scholar raises fresh questions about what he intended to do with it. By Stephen Castle Stephen Castle reported ...

To be or not to be? That may be the only question left, as a longstanding Shakespearean mystery is now solved. Curiosities about the exact location of the unparalleled playwright’s “missing” London ...

Shakespeare's granddaughter sold his London property in 1665, 49 years after he died Universal History Archive/Getty Historians have pinpointed William Shakespeare's London home to Blackfriars in ...

In his memorial poem introducing William Shakespeare’s First Folio, Ben Jonson memorably referred to the playwright as the “sweet swan of Avon,” poetically fixing him in the public imagination as a ...

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. It had long been known that the playwright owned a ...

SHAKESPEARE’S long-lost London home has finally been pinpointed shedding new light on the legendary English playwright’s later years. For years historians have been baffled about where The Bard lived ...