The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

What You Will Theatre, the University’s Shakespeare company, showed a Wild West-inspired “Macbeth” on Friday and Saturday.

One day, in December 1794, a 19-year-old man in London named William Henry Ireland snuck into his father’s study and […] ...

A tablecloth stain drives Chris De Vinck to reflect on other stains, like the stains of history, our original sin and how history teaches us how to rise ...

The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

It’s time once again for my annual homage to one of the great influences in my life, William Shakespeare. In addition to April being National Poetry Month, April 23rd is ...

Highlights include Tony nominee Whitney White flipping the script on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Cirque du Soleil’s water-soaked ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...

Dil Diya Dard Liya' (1966) is a vintage Bollywood interpretation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. It Indianised the ...

Rather than talk down to its audience and try to massively update the tragedy’s script, the film had the confidence to stick with Shakespeare’s original words (with a few tweaks). The contrast between ...

Shakespeare’s works are, and have always been, profoundly theological — not because they provide answers but because they ...