Chloé Zhao's film, like Maggie O'Farrell's book, is built on a thin layer of historical truth. Here's what little we know.

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of ...

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 ...

Hamnet and Hamlet were spelled interchangeably at that time. Parish records confirm that Hamnet, along with his twin sister, Judith, were baptized in 1585, likely named after neighbors—Hamnet and ...

Learn all the basics about the life of Warwickshire's most famous and loved playwright, from his birth right through to his death. Shakespeare literally invented 1,700 words in the English language.

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

In Chloe Zhao's feature film about Shakespeare's family, Paul Mescal interprets a scene of "Hamlet" in a way I've never seen ...

There Was a Starre Daunst, and Under That Was I Borne William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George’s Day. The date may in fact have been 21 April or 22 ...

A partial biography about a year in the life of legendary playwright William Shakespeare has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. American professor James ...

Atlas Books, $19.95In 196 engaging pages, Bill Bryson accomplishes quite a bit. He clearly delineates what can be known from the small amount of documentation about William Shakespeare and what has ...