Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 ... Another 18 were added to a larger “folio” edition of collected plays, the First Folio, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death.

Half of the plays would have been lost if the First Folio had not been printed ... For all time, Shakespeare editing [was] ...

Previous winners range from Philip Pullman and Maggie O’Farrell to Charlie Mackesy, Paul McCartney and Katherine Rundell.

Waterstones has revealed its shortlist for its Book of the Year 2024, with 15 tomes in the running. The annual award calls on ...

Covering everything from the anatomy of a carrion crow to the poems of William Cowper, this is a volume no budding ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

THE WORLD’S smallest portrait of William Shakespeare is on display in Stratford ... known today as the portrait included in the First Folio of 1623. Audiences can view the artwork up close through a ...

true story of how William Shakespeare’s friends, Henry Condell and John Hemings, rescued half of his plays from being lost ...