No contemporary physical description of William Shakespeare is known to exist. The two portraits of him that are the most famous (both of which may be...

Principal Portraits of William Shakespeare, London, Spottiswoode, 1864, p. 3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Shakespeare, William/The Portraits of Shakespeare" ...

The Ashbourne portrait is one of several portraits that have been falsely identified as portrayals of William Shakespeare. At least 60 such works had...

text is not legible. The Sanders portrait is one of the most researched portraits claimed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). It is named for the...

Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. While historians...

portraits, as well as misattributions, re-paintings, and relabelling of portraits of other people. Some scholars suggest that the Droeshout portrait,...

William Shakespeare's sexuality has been the subject of frequent debates. It is known from public records that he married Anne Hathaway and had three...

Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...

Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway; 1556 – 6 August 1623), commonly known as Anne Hathaway, was the wife of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright...

William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised...