Today's confirmation that remains found beneath a car park in Leicester are those of the last Plantagenet king of England will not strip the mystery f...

Thousands of children are to be given the chance to stage a Shakespeare play in a theatre to mark the 450th anniversary of the Bard's birth in 2014. ...

The seasons have long been a source of inspiration for poets and writers and there are plenty of verses about what's currently going on outside your w...

Exposure to great art helps inspire other great art. So, it is a shame that many films, novels and photos are not publicly accessible because their rights holders cannot be traced. In some public institutions these works - known as orphan works because the rights holders are unknown - make up 70% of the collection.

Leading stars of stage and screen, including Stephen Fry and Vanessa Redgrave, have added their backing to a new campaign to make the first volume of ...

John Terry may have been found not guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, but one thing that's been made abundantly clear throughout the course o...

William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet is to be turned into a pop-rock opera. Buyers at the Marche du Film in Cannes are being aske...

An Iraqi theatre company made a rare appearance on a British stage today as it prepared to perform a new version of Romeo and Juliet which transports ...

Academics at Oxford University believe that William Shakespeare worked with a co-author when writing All's Well That Ends Well. Just days after th...

To celebrate William Shakespeare’s 448th birthday (and lunchtime), Twitter users got creative with the hashtag #ShakespeareFood today – Oh, the Ba...

He did more than any other writer in history to shape the English language - but what's your favourite Shakespeare quote? To celebrate the bard's 4...

The Prince of Wales will come face to face with the Prince of Denmark when he visits Hamlet's castle today. He and the Duchess of Cornwall are to w...