What does William Shakespeare’s immortal Sonnet 29 really mean? Was the melancholy Bard transmitting a coded message? The hypothesis that the playwright concealed his secret Catholic identity during ...

Beginning with Henry VIII and continuing under Elizabeth I, Asquith traces what she calls the growth "of a coded, dissident language" in Shakespeare's plays, demonstrating that he "developed this ...

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,” William Shakespeare wrote in a stanza from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, going on to name check several darlings of Elizabethan gardens — oxlips, violets, ...

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a map leading to the location of certain treasures.

Intriguing, fitfully brilliant and sometimes silly, Jennifer Lee Carrell's "Interred With Their Bones" is one of the most perplexing novels I've ever read. Carrell is a Shakespeare scholar, and the ...