The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

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 ...

Archive research has revealed new information about a 16th Century comedian and his influence on William Shakespeare ...

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 ...