William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He ...

A silver screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is a bruising backstory of the Bard’s towering tragedy.

British playwright Tom Stoppard has died at age 88 peacefully at his home in Dorset, England, his agents confirmed.

In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded ...

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from their writing?

Stoppard was often hailed as the greatest British playwright of his generation, and he received a range of honors and awards.

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet explores the family heartbreak and loss that inspired Shakespeare’s ...