William Shakespeare

British actor and director Ralph Fiennes has been granted Serbian citizenship.

Beta reported this on Monday, citing the latest issue of the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia.

The decision to give Fiennes Serbia's citizenship was signed by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic on September 7.

The Istanbul City Theaters staged a premiere of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on March 8 with an added twist: puppets. 

The play will be on stage at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage on March 11, 15, 16, 17 and 18 before moving to the Ümraniye Stage on March 30 and April 1. 

Iconoclastic actor, playwright and theater director Steven Berkoff brings his acclaimed one-man play "Shakespeare's Villains" to the Athens Concert Hall for one show, on Wednesday, February 15, starting at 8 p.m. Performed around the world by Berkoff since 1998, the piece explores Shakespeare's most notorious characters, including Iago, the Macbeths, Shylock and Richard III.

Four hundred weeping Poles took to the streets on April 23 in a symbolic funeral parade to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
 
The volunteer thespians in full Elizabethan attire, weeping dramatically in Shakespeare's honour, wove through the streets of the city of Gdansk pretending to pull their hair and tear at their clothes in grief.
 

Many phrases the English playwright coined have stood the test of time—some 400 years after his death.

William Shakespeare had a way with words that helped shape the way we now speak English.

A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on a Scottish island, the University of Oxford said April 7.

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, authenticated the First Folio as genuine, making it one of the most valuable books in the world.

British playwright William Shakespeare's works have undergone countless adaptations, from silent performances to dance acts, for hundreds of years. In Istanbul, a local theater adapts Shakespeare's plays by "freely translating" and modernizing them in order to render the plays engaging and relatable to a larger audience. 

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul has created an exclusive program for a truly magical Valentine's Day in which Italian performer and musician Riccardo Maccaferri from the world-famous musical "Romeo and Juliet" will take the stage for live music.

This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who - to borrow from his own description of Julius Caesar -"doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."

A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the first-ever compilation of the Bard's plays published in 1623, has been discovered in the library of an ancient port town in northern France.