A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

Life and death. To be or not to be.” “Hamnet” director Chloé Zhao asks big questions in a movie that’s about much more than ...

Some of the world's rarest and oldest books include the Codex Leicester, a notebook by Leonardo da Vinci; the Gutenberg Bible ...

The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Mad About the Boy star Chiwetel Ejiofor has joined the creative team of Royal Shakespeare Company show The Boy Who Harnessed ...

Teen slang "6-7" isn't new - it traces back to medieval dice games from the 1300s. Shakespeare used it in "Richard II." ...

The theatre department’s final fall semester production, premiering Thursday at 7:30 p.m., will be a rendition of  “Rough Magic,” imagining Shakespearean characters on a magical quest of ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently ...

The clock tower stands as the unofficial timekeeper of downtown, its red brick face visible from various vantage points throughout the city. There’s something reassuring about a town that still ...

Euronews Travel rounds up some relatively lesser-known European Christmas markets which are adding a touch of magic to the ...

Outside of streaming, one of the biggest arguments for why theater attendance has dipped lately is that Hollywood has run out ...