LONDON (AP) — If all the world’s a stage, William Shakespeare is its architect. The playwright died 400 years ago Saturday, but remains the world’s most famous writer, living on through ...

Women playing men in Shakespeare's plays is hardly a new phenomenon, of course. Venerated English stage and screen actress Harriet Walter, recently familiar to Americans for her stint on Downton ...

April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, long regarded the greatest writer in the English language. And starting this month, the Bard’s native England is ...

Shakespeare is said to have been born, and died, on April 23. This year, the 400th anniversary of his death has prompted an outpouring of celebrations. Here are a highly curated few.

To satirize, or not to satirize. That is the question. April 23, 2016. is the 400th anniversary of the death of playwright, poet, actor William Shakespeare, generally regarded as the greatest ...

Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, will host day-long celebrations on Saturday, with events including live music, stage-fighting workshops and a Blood, Guts and Gore demonstration on how ...

Shakespeare’s funerary monument, erected shortly after his death in Stratford, offers us some clues that the “Stratford man” and Shakespeare were one and the same.

Multifarious death scenes from several Shakespeare plays, including ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Othello,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘Richard III,’ will be played out Friday to mark the ...