Shakespeare

literature

Shakespeare’s earliest surviving work is generally considered to be the history play Henry VI , Part 1, likely composed and performed in the early 1590s, with evidence pointin...

theatre history

Shakespeare’s first performed plays likely appeared in the late 1580s or early 1590s, most probably Henry VI, Part 1 in the early 1590s, with Titus Andronicus and the three pa...

literature-analysis

Iago is Shakespeare’s principal instigator of tragedy in Othello, serving as the engine of deception, suspicion, and ruin. As a trusted ensign, he weaponizes rumors, forges ev...

theatre_and_venues

Shakespeare's Globe is both the name of the historic Elizabethan playhouse where many of Shakespeare's works were first performed and the modern reconstruction standing near the...

literature

Verona is the Italian city where Shakespeare sets his tragedy of young love, family feud, and fatal choices. As the backdrop for every major event, Verona shapes the charactersâ...

literature

William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth is set in 11th century Scotland during the High Middle Ages, primarily around the reign of King Macbeth of Scotland (c.1005–1057) and t...

history-culture

We celebrate Shakespeare's birthday on 23 April, the day traditionally recorded as his baptism in 1564 and long regarded as his birth date. Although baptism usually followed bir...

culture-and-arts

William Shakespeare’s birthday is commonly recognized as 23 April. The date is inferred from his baptism on 26 April 1564, following a tradition in which infants were baptized...

theatre history

The Globe Theatre, the open-air playhouse most closely associated with William Shakespeare’s work, was built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men on land in Southwark owned...

literary-analysis

In Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare intensifies conflict and foreshadows tragedy through a dense weave of allusions that draw on Roman myth, biblical justice, medieval rom...