A biography of Shakespeare's First Folio is small cause for celebration on the 400th anniversary of the bard's death, writes Stuart Kelly Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you ...

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

Shakespeare: The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, is published in hardback by Chatto & Windus, priced £25. Available now. WILLIAM Shakespeare and Posh Spice may not have a great deal in common. But Peter ...

The world’s mine oyster… Wear my heart upon my sleeve… Wild-goose chase… All that glisters is not gold… A tower of strength… In a pickle… Even a small selection of these phrases, coined by Shakespeare ...

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Shakespeare's Globe have announced The Complete Walk, a series of specially created short films of each of Shakespeare's plays. The films, ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – and death – with some of the Bard’s sonnets, transformed into short films by the New York Shakespeare ...