William Shakespeare

The parents of Xin Shang, a 29-year-old filmmaker from southern Dalian, China, received a notice this week that he had been arrested for reciting a William Shakespeare sonnet at an anti-government protest in November, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.

The two stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed 1968 movie version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet are suing Paramount over the film’s nude scene, claiming it constitutes child sexual exploitation.

A theatre group has vowed to make their production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus more obviously racist in the hopes of highlighting the Bard’s alleged bigotry.

New Zealand’s arts council ended funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, saying it was “located within a canon of imperialism.”

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has added a trigger warning before a production of the Bard’s famed Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

Silicon Valley giant Twitter censored a Shakespearean scholar in Britain for quoting a famous line from the Bard’s Henry VI, Part 2.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth will undergo a partial sex-change operation when a highly anticipated Broadway production starring Daniel Craig opens this spring. Showtime’s Billions star Asia Kate Dillon, who was born female but identifies as non-binary and uses “they / them” pronouns, will play the role of Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan.

A London theatre has added a ‘trigger warning’ to its production of William Shakespeare’s 415-year-old play Macbeth, because it contains scenes of violence, suicide, fake blood, and smoking.

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”.

NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell incorrectly accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of misquoting William Shakespeare on Wednesday in a fact check attempt that brutally backfired once Internet users picked up on her error.

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats tried this week to re-enact the assassination of Julius Caesar — but this version will end in hilarity.

An enthusiastically positive profile of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in the Chinese state news service Xinhua claims that reading the “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet – a monologue about contemplating suicide – inspired Xi to spread his totalitarian ideology through politics.

Two writers have discovered a likely source of inspiration for eleven Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth, by using anti-plagiarism software.

Students at the prestigious Cambridge University have been given “trigger warnings” ahead of a Shakespeare reading assignment because the assigned play involves depictions of sexual violence.

Shakespeare in the Park began its summer season in New York City’s Central Park last month with a “contemporary” take on the playwright’s Julius Caesar, in which the title character bears a not-so-subtle resemblance to President Donald Trump.

The Times of Israel reports: A new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet was denounced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for its perceived “Israel-bashing.”

The BBC has once again been slammed for its overt politically correctness, with critics claiming it used a celebration of Shakespeare’s life, broadcast live last night, to push a pro-immigration agenda. The criticism comes as the publically funded Corporation reveals

LONDON (Reuters) – On the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare is more popular abroad than in Britain and makes a significant contribution to the UK’s prosperity and influence, according to a survey published on Tuesday. The British Council, which