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London's Guildhall Library won't explain why visitors can only see copy of First Folio for a very, very short period of time

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of William Shakespeares plays, the City of London Corporation has organized a special exhibition at Guildhall...

Domingo says the pandemic was a strong catalyst for the inclusive storytelling that audiences are seeing these days on Broadway

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is publishing a new abridged version of Shakespeare’s complete works targeted at a younger audience.

Britons are these days ten times more likely to recognise well-known phrases from television shows than those from the works of the Bard.

In “Stalking Shakespeare,” Lee Durkee describes his quest to find a true, authentic image of the famous playwright, a search that becomes a tragicomic tale in its own right.

Cars, coffee, comedy, the Marathon, rooftop bars and more.

But What Kind of Mystery Play is This? It is about the separation and reuniting of a family, yes, maybe the holy family you might grant, where the women play as in Jesus’ story a major part, but what are we to make of the separation and reuniting of two identical twins?

Ireland’s only copy of the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays, known as the First Folio, has gone on display in Trinity College Dublin.

Here are the highlights from the Irish Independent Review’s books coverage this weekend.