Lion cub Simba and the melancholic Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, have much more in common than you might think.

For actors, the stage is a playground. Lines of text and stage directions present opportunities for performers to challenge themselves and make choices that are both bold and clear to audiences.

Nearly three seasons after building toward a Shakespearean tragedy, 'Yellowstone' dropped the ball with Jamie's adoption.

Anthony Mason is a senior culture and senior national correspondent for CBS News. He has been a frequent contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning." Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

PHD Candidate, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia The expression “star-crossed lovers,” one of the earliest recorded “knock, knock” jokes and many other one-liners, ...

A real-life Shakespearean crime story (Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent) Some stories are so dramatically revealing of the tragic flaws in human character we think of them as ‘almost ...

Friends, Countrymen: King Charles III loves borrowing from Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s time, this would have been the idea of the ‘King’s Two Bodies,’ a political metaphor that distinguishes between ...

I first learned the pleasure of Shakespearean insults in ninth grade, when I was assigned to read “Henry IV, Part I.” My teacher was a gifted man named Greg Lombardo who instilled in our class a sense ...

Students at Lyons Township High School will perform Williams Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night or What You Will” this weekend. The play concerns a shipwreck, lost twins, mistaken identity, ...