William Shakespeare
  • Happy birthday William Shakespeare -- we think

    It's Shakespeare's birthday -- maybe. Celebrate by eating "a dish fit for the gods" and curl up with some Shakespeare. You can then consider yourself "exceedingly well read."...

  • Beware the Ides of March: Here's why

    March 15 is a day that will forever live in infamy thanks to William Shakespeare and his fictional warning to Julius Caesar....

  • 'Anonymous'

    Did William Shakespeare really write the legendary plays that bear his name? That's the controversial question posed by this drama from director......

  • Al Pacino Will Play 'King Lear'

    ...Radford, who directed Pacino in a 2004 version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," will direct. William Shakespeare 's play tells the story of the titular king who, slowly going mad, divides his kingdom between his three......

  • 'Australia'

    ...others, his wife Catherine Martin, the first-rate production and costume designer. "Strictly Ballroom," " William Shakespeare 's Romeo + Juliet" and "Moulin Rouge!" comprised the director's so-called "red curtain trilogy......

  • Jonas Brothers Follow 'Farting Dog' to Big Screen

    ...recording sensations will make their feature starring debuts in "Walter the Farting Dog," based on the play by William Shakespeare . No, we kid. "Walter the Farting Dog" is, of course, actually based on the bestselling books by William......

  • Taymor Tosses Oscar Winners Into 'Tempest'

    Julie Taymor has rounded up a slew of Oscar favorites for her gender-bending take on William Shakespeare 's "The Tempest." According to The Hollywood Reporter , "The Queen" star Helen Mirren will duchess-turned......

  • Oscar Winner Paul Scofield Dies at 86

    , one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86....

  • 'Doctor Who' Stops Clock

    will take a break between its fourth and fifth seasons, meaning that aside from a few specials, there will be no regular episodes in 2009. It's also not clear, according to multiple reports in the British media, if star David Tennant will return for the show's fifth season in 2010....

  • 'Jane' Turns Author into Character

    ...explaining away the creative process. There's a certain "oh, I get it" satisfaction in the suggestion that William Shakespeare wrote "Romeo And Juliet" because he was himself a star-crossed lover (see "Shakespeare In Love"), or......

  • 'Transformers' is Dumb Fun

    We knew it would be dumb. But we had no idea it would be so much dumb fun. Transformers is so jokey that it's practically a goof on the crummy TV cartoon it is based on....

  • 'Doctor Who' Season Three Travels to Sci Fi

    ...promise new thrills, new laughs and some terrifying new aliens. The Doctor and Martha are destined to meet William Shakespeare , blood-sucking alien Plasmavores, The Judoon -- a clan of galactic stormtroopers -- and a sinister Dalek......

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84

    ...uncollected short fiction; "God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian" (2000), a series of riffs on dead eminences such as William Shakespeare that he originally wrote for radio; and "A Man Without a Country," a collection of short essays and speeches......

  • Showtime Loses Its Heads Over 'The Tudors'

    movie. That part may actually have provided some good training for his role in "The Tudors," since this young Henry VIII is depicted as being the rock star of his time....

  • 'She's the Man'

    Just so everyone is on the same page: "She's the Man" is a modern-day reworking of William Shakespeare 's "Twelfth Night," tweaked in order to allow TV goofball Amanda Bynes to play the cross-dressing Viola -- who......