The Latest Breaking News from Shakespeare

Toronto film festival: Sally Hawkins is amiable enough as the amateur historian who locates the long-dead monarch – but the uneven script digs its own grave

The actor answers your questions, from his memorable impersonation of a sloth at Rada to what it was like having to execute one of his son’s best friends

King Lear may have divided the country in two and turned it against itself but perhaps, like the outgoing Tory leader, he ‘got all the big calls right’

From June Spencer to wild monkeys, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

Arthur Hughes becomes the first disabled actor ever to perform the lead role as the wicked royal 'crookback' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths – ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is even plausible). Those myths send us down rabbit holes and make us lose sight of what is truly impressive…

Director Dominic Hill brings exuberance to Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of identical twins unknowingly at large in the same city

Jamie Wilkes’s Parolles steals the show in Blanche McIntyre’s unromantic, social media-inflected production

The Bard's dark 'problem play' is turbo-charged in a thrilling new production that takes it hurtling into the 21st century to give it new relevance