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Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...

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Dr Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure was

Alt: An engraving of a rhinoceros which has been animated to make it look as if the animal is walking along. Below is the name: Albrecht Dürer.

John Fletcher and William Shakespeare collaborated on three plays (Cardenio, All Is True; or King Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen) from around summer 1612 to late autumn 1613. Much ink has be...