The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

The literary world is reeling from the death of twice-Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, at the age of 70. Claire Allfree remembers a writer of seismic impact

YouTube philosopher Abigail Thorn moves offline and on to the stage with an ambitious exploration of identities and the performance of gender

Lord Sentamu said the poignant service will be an 'uplifting' joyous occasion with angelic singing and the English language at its best and words from William Shakespeare

"It's not been the easiest of years, it's one thing after another."

The performer has met the King on a number of occasions.

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth”; John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”; Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”; and…

How many can you get right without looking up or researching the answers?

Ahead of her latest hospital appointment, Louise Thompson explained how she still doesn't have any answers about 'what's going on in that region' and her last ultrasound saw 'the guy joke there was something white and shiny in there'

Experts have long suspected the Bard collaborated on a number of projects, and new methods are revealing how much this might have been the case.