In 1612, a literary sensation swept through London’s cultural class. For the first time, part one of Miguel Cervantes’s 1605 novel Don Quixote was available in English, and it quickly gripped the ...

After 20 years of work, an American Shakespeare scholar is bringing his restoration of what he says is a lost play by the Bard to the stage. In 1613, royal records show payment was made to a ...

In the spring of 1613, the office of the Treasurer of the King's Chamber recorded two separate payments to the King's Men – William Shakespeare's company – for performances of a play called Cardenna ...

Cardenio, a drama of seduction, desire and betrayal set in 17th Century Spain, is described as “Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’ re-imagined”. It is based on a play of the same name which is thought to have ...

In 1995 Unesco named April 23 World Book Day because of a morbid literary coincidence. Both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died April 23, 1616, the same exact date but 10 days apart, ...

They're known as the sniffer dogs of Shakespeare's plays - unstoppable academics who refuse to admit that the Bard's famous lost plays are really, truly gone forever. You've never heard of Shakespeare ...

Shakespeare by the Sea — the troupe known for bringing the Bard’s plays to open-air audiences for more than two decades — has officially launched its latest season in Long Beach. The troupe opened its ...

As if neither man wanted to live in a world without the other, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Or not exactly. They didn’t actually succumb on the same day.

Lewis Theobald’s Double Falsehood had its premiere at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane on 13 December 1727. It was a romantic tragicomedy in a Spanish setting; the story was from an episode in Don ...

After 20 years of work, an American Shakespeare scholar is bringing his restoration of what he says is a lost play by the Bard to the stage. In 1613, royal records show payment was made to a ...