Shakespeare & Beyond

Find out what's onstage at Shakespeare theaters across the United States this summer.

Take our quiz to get matched with one of 20 books from the Folger Shakespeare Library's virtual book club inspired by Shakespeare and the early modern era.

Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II visited the Folger in 1991? In honor of her Platinum Jubilee, dig into some royal history in the Folger collection.

Director Sam Gold shares what he loves most about Macbeth, why it stands out from other Shakespeare tragedies he's directed, and how his ideas about the play changed over time. His current Broadway production, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, runs through July 10.

Robert Eggers’s "The Northman" is not an adaptation of "Hamlet," but a film in conversation with Shakespeare's play, Austin Tichenor writes.

Hamlet sings! A new opera version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is onstage now at the Metropolitan Opera, with tenor Allan Clayton resuming the title role that he played for the opera's world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017. Read our Q&A with Allan Clayton.

Jacob Ming-Trent shares a favorite moment from his Shakespeare in the Park performance as Falstaff in "Merry Wives," which premieres on PBS's Great Performances May 20.

Thanks to its peculiar reproductive cycle, distant migration, and haunting melodies, the cuckoo may hold the title for most folklore among Shakespeare’s birds.

With the total lunar eclipse happening this weekend, we take a look at three of the ways Shakespeare used eclipses in his plays and poems.

Read our round-up of May performances from Shakespeare theaters across the country.

"To know Shakespeare thoroughly and read him well aloud, it was necessary to have a usable edition of his works, a text that did away with printer’s errors and the vagaries of old spelling and punctuation, that explained the more obscure words and allusions in the plays, and that was furnished with critical guidance as to the nature of Shakespeare’s genius," writes Jonathan Bate (referring to the notable Shakespeare editor Samuel Johnson) in this excerpt from the preface to the Royal Shakespeare Company's newly published second edition of the complete works of Shakespeare.

The Bard meets the MCU in Ian Doescher's reworking of the four Avengers films as a Shakespearean play. Read an excerpt from the epic Battle of New York scene from the first Avengers film.