"It might be a portrait of Shakespeare, but not a likeness, because the conventions of portraiture at the time were often to idealize the subject, " he said.

It' s possible to fit everything we know about Shakespeare on to a postcard, right? Wrong.

This isn't any old bed it belonged to Shakespeare.

Fisher told me that her current boyfriend has read the complete works of Shakespeare aloud to her in bed, as well as some Dickens and Ibsen.

He turned to the study of Shakespeare.