Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell says the Irish actor "stood out a mile" long before break out Normal People role.

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

Caralynn Nowinski Collens, Ramille Shah, and Adam Jakus spent years developing an innovative technology to regenerate injured bone. The results, they thought, were . . . okay. The company they founded ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Amy Odell’s upcoming book, Gwyneth: The Biography, seemingly reveals how Paltrow, 52, allegedly ...

The title page of one of the Folger’s First Folios. Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library Future titan of industry Henry Clay Folger Jr. lived the first part of his life in Dickensian poverty. Born ...

Designed by Antoine Mainfray, Atelier Interface, a leading naval architect and bio-composite specialist who has built structures for the world’s fastest racing yachts in the IMOCA, VOR and ULTIM ...

For more than 400 years the works of William Shakespeare have inspired and entertained us. The movie industry has looked to those same works to produce some of the best adaptations of his work almost ...

Re “Who’s Afraid of William Shakespeare?,” by Drew Lichtenberg (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 21): As a managing director at the nonprofit Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and former ...