The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Lately, life feels a bit too serious, doesn’t it?Bills, work, deadlines, errands, decisions - it all piles up faster than we’d like. So here’s a little break from all that: a quiz made entirely of strange, useless, and wonderfully pointless facts. From Shakespeare’s dad’s odd job to the speed of…

Lately, life feels a bit too serious, doesn’t it?Bills, work, deadlines, errands, decisions - it all piles up faster than we’d like. So here’s a little break from all that: a quiz made entirely of strange, useless, and wonderfully pointless facts. From Shakespeare’s dad’s odd job to the speed of…

Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is best of all, he says

"I did wear the big guy's suit.”

Since its first performance in 1606, King Lear has earned its place as Shakespeare’s largest and most revered powerhouse tragedy.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) unveiled its new digital learning app on Wednesday, 12 November, at Middle Temple, the historic site of the first Twelfth Night performance in 1604.

Dame Helen Mirren has jokingly suggested that Shakespeare’s plays should be banned for teenagers, in order to make young people more eager to read them.

Speaking at the launch of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new digital learning app on Wednesday (12 November), Sir Ian McKellen confessed that he still grapples with the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, even after more than 60 years on stage.