Shakespeare didn't even know what a balcony was—so how did one end in his most famous scene?

Harold Bloom, a staunch defender of the Western literary tradition, returns to Shakespeare, "the true multicultural author."

The lack of information about the playwright’s private life makes it hard to dispute or even describe his identity. But people keep trying anyway.

A Pennsylvania judge’s decision to quote Shakespeare in a recent ruling doubled as a meaningful, yet still ambiguous, interpretation of cultural chaos.