Christopher Nolan's new movie The Odyssey is based on Homer's 2,700-year-old epic poem. There have been a lot of adaptations of The Odyssey over the past couple millennia, and some of them are so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Shakespeare's writing has been adapted for the big screen on many occasions. The best film adaptations of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare was a late 16th-century English playwright, poet, and actor who is regarded by many as the greatest writer in history. Today, his plays are still performed on stages around the ...

The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language. That was the striking message I took away from a talk by translation studies scholar Professor Susan Bassnett at the British ...

(Note this transcript is auto generated and may contain transcription errors.) ANDREW BOWEN Welcome back to Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bowen sitting in for Jade Hindmon. CLIP Brush up your Shakespeare ...

Artwork for Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus and Mrs Dalloway, provided by the RSC press team. The RSC has announced details of its programme for summer 2027. Highlights include four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teen comedies are so ubiquitous that it's often difficult to find one that does something daring and new. But would you believe ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2026 issue. In September, two new Shakespeare adaptations used the Bard’s canonical plays as jumping-off points to bring stories infused with ...

In New Orleans, the start of the Mardi Gras or carnival season begins with Twelfth Night, the same name that is given to one of Shakespeare’s most festive plays. A 2018 musical adaptation of ...

If you’re unsure how you feel about Shakespeare’s morally difficult and dubiously comedic play “The Taming of the Shrew,” the clever but muddled adaptation now running at Union Arts Center probably ...