His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

They suggest that the actor allowed patron Thomas Walsingham to use the name for authorship. Another theory that has attracted much scholarship and controversy is the Marlovian Shakespeare theory.

A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up ... significance in the scraps of a letter first discovered in 1978. Related Articles Q&A: Author Bonnie Tsui on memoir, muscle and ...

In this version of the familiar story, we are whisked away to the 1800s American West. The sparring young men are now ...

So in a way that's almost better evidence for Shakespeare than against. Do you think the authorship debate is about literary snobbery on the one side and people who see Shakespeare as a working ...

The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...