Shakespeare & Beyond

Explore photos, stories, and a video to learn more about actor Earle Hyman, whose bust is in the Folger’s Shakespeare Exhibition Hall.

Read about the 1936 “voodoo Macbeth” in this excerpt from The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro.

Austin Tichenor on how Shakespeare drew from the classics, history texts, folk tales, contemporary politics, and more.

Stephen Greenblatt explores this question in this excerpt from Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, a book co-authored with Adam Phillips.

Find out what’s onstage at Shakespeare theaters across the country this month.

Austin Tichenor writes about movies that feel like plays and theater that feels cinematic.

What’s going through Viola’s head as she woos Olivia on Orsino’s behalf? Dame Judi Dench reflects on this key scene in this excerpt from her newly published book.

How well do you know Greek and Roman myths? See if you can identify the mythological figures on the title page of this 1626 edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

We take a look at what’s onstage at Shakespeare theaters across the United States.

Brittany N. Williams looks at cue scripts and their importance to actors in Shakespeare’s time.

Austin Tichenor explores the deep connections the president and his murderer share with William Shakespeare.

Listen to a ballad that was written around 1594 as a spin-off of Titus Andronicus, the revenge tragedy that’s considered one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest and most violent plays.