On Friday a Hollywood director skilled at blowing up stuff onscreen is set to blow up 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship with Anonymous, a $30 million period-costume drama/thriller that traduces ...

Debate: Was Shakespeare a Fraud? Seriously, this is still that Roland Emmerich movie. I don't believe it either, but hot damn am I excited to see it. Sony Pictures has debuted the first official ...

In the right hands, the messing-with-history period piece can be a lot of fun. "Shakespeare in Love" showed us that using some of the world's greatest written words as a backdrop for a ...

Since the middle of the 19th century, important thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud have questioned whether “the man from Stratford” is in fact responsible ...

Leave it to a German to blitzkrieg the Immortal Bard and the Virgin Queen in one sitting. Roland Emmerich's Anonymous is a generally sober-minded legitimizing of a couple of the Elizabethan era's most ...