The Shakespeare Club recently heard a report by Mary Croxton on banned books Croxton noted that attempts to restrict what ...

The Stratford Festival is welcoming five new participants to the Langham Directors’ Workshop for the 2025 season. Learn more ...

With his body language hinting that he’s getting one vision after another, soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus tells struggling Renaissance playwright Nick Bottom about a successful play he believes he can ...

When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.

The historian – once dubbed ‘the rudest man in Britain’ – on cancel culture, free speech and why he refuses to ‘shut up’ ...

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 ...

Then actors reenact their stories, lip-synching their drunken, impassioned speech. I am not sure I will ever get tired of rewatching Michael Cera playing an unnamed Puritan leader, in somber black ...