Shakespeare lived through and survived a pandemic, one of a number of waves of the bubonic plague. Very sadly, however, his son Hamnet died of the plague, aged just 11. This affected William’s ...

One of these actors was William Shakespeare. He's still famous today. Not for acting but because he was, and still is, one of the best known writers in the English language. Shakespeare was born ...

Despite the difficulty of his language, Shakespeare is by far the most-performed playwright of all time. Whether it is the heartbreaking love story of Romeo and Juliet, the anguish of Hamlet ...