Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and poet. His works have been translated into 80 languages, including Star Trek’s Klingon. He helped shape the English we use today ...

This was called the Reformation. The break with Rome eventually triggered England’s transition into a Protestant country. By the time Shakespeare was born in 1564, Protestantism was the main ...

Life in Shakespeare’s England Shakespeare wrote tragedies, like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, and also comedies, like The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Beliefs and superstitions in Shakespeare’s ...

came to the English throne as James I of England. James was the first monarch in the Stuart dynasty. He was still on the throne when Shakespeare died in 1616. Wearing the wrong clothes in ...