Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Shakespeare’s time, some critics and scholars have been unable to believe that a country boy from Stratford-Upon-Avon, who ...

It was modern forensics, a class of science the bard would likely have relished. South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray actually dug up Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon garden and had a good ...

From the whereabouts of his skull to questions of authorship, the legendary playwright William Shakespeare attracts controversy as well as acclaim. Now, researchers have used a machine learning ...

Many believe that Shakespeare had help writing at least some of his plays, but to what extent? AI might have an answer. Czech researcher Petr Plecháč has developed a machine learning system that ...

William Shakespeare apparently wasn't the only person responsible for the success of his famous works. Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection/ getty images One of William Shakespeare's chief ...

There is no end to theories about the true identity of William Shakespeare-that he is Christopher Marlowe, that he paid a drunkard named Shakespeare to use his name, that he is a conglomerate of ...