Saintly relics, royal robes and precious prayer books were just some of the rare treasures we were treated to an exclusive ...

Oscar Isaac is at his absolute most vulnerable in the gripping documentary King Hamlet, about a modern adaptation of the ...

Folger Theatre has revealed the complete lineup of events included in the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a public ...

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Folger Shakespeare Library will open Imagining Shakespeare: Mythmaking and Storytelling in the Regency Era on October 4, 2025. The exhibition presents ...

“The Winter’s Tale” at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia. Photo by Madison Patterson. Courtesy ASC. Although the American Shakespeare Center’s Shenandoah Valley home is pronounced ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

Distinguished professor Paul Werstine has made it his life's work to teach and edit the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. The King's University College faculty member is known around the globe ...

Shakespeare had no internet to help research ideas for plays. He had no word processors to assess his grammar or to check his spelling. Despite this, at a time when the rare educated English person ...

Durham's copy of the First Folio is one of 235 which have survived A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio which was stolen 25 years ago is to go on display for the first time in more than a decade. The ...

The story of a 400-year-old Shakespeare First Folio and how it was stolen from a university library, damaged, spirited to the US for sale, recovered and finally restored is being told in a new ...

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. It wants to 'create a more inclusive museum experience' and announced it will move away from Western ...