Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which is important for boosting cognition and mental well-being. Good brain health at this age is directly linked to better mental heath, ...

Four centuries after his death, the Bard’s world remains alive in the streets, stages, and stories of the quaint town in England ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Adjoa Andoh, the inaugural Director's Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about Shakespeare's relevance in modern times, and specifically to people of color.

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays 35 Denton Chikura and Tonderai ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shakespeare's London house was identified in a plan of the Blackfriars district from 1668. - The London Archives, City of London ...

Shakespeare's granddaughter sold his London property in 1665, 49 years after he died Universal History Archive/Getty Historians have pinpointed William Shakespeare's London home to Blackfriars in ...

Many millennials’ first exposure to the classics came from a talking Jack Russell terrier. Originally on the air from 1995 to 1997, “Wishbone” cast its titular star as a different literary character ...

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. It had long been known that the playwright owned a ...

The cast and creative team have been announced for Mother Courage and Her Children at Shakespeare’s Globe. Bertolt Brecht’s piece, translated by Anna Jordan, will be staged at the Globe from 7 May ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...