In its pledge to ‘decolonize’ the Bard’s legacy, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has forsaken its historical mission in ...

The organization overseeing museums celebrating English playwright William Shakespeare’s life is reportedly working to ...

Historians don’t know his date of birth, where he was educated or how he spent seven years of his life. There is no record of Shakespeare’s birth, but his christening is recorded. It was usual ...

It explores Shakespeare's life in Elizabethan England, his upbringing in Stratford, and the historical context of his plays. The text emphasizes that Shakespeare's characters and themes resonate ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...