A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ...

But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades. And his words − the countless ...

It’s ironic, mayhap, that my never reading a full Shakespeare play lasted from high school through about halfway into what’s now 23 years as a professor of writing. That it took being dogged ...

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

After Shakespeare’s death in 1616, his plays were collected into a single volume by his friends John Heminges and Henry Condell, actors and shareholders in the playwright’s troupe, the King ...

which contains 36 of Shakespeare’s plays, and is “the most significant publication in the history of English literature”. It is one of four folios which are due to go on sale at Sotheby’s ...

A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to £4.5 million ($6 million) at auction next month. Sotheby’s auction house announced the ...

After Shakespeare’s death in 1616, his plays were collected into a single volume by his friends John Heminges and Henry Condell, actors and shareholders in the playwright’s troupe, the King ...