William Shakespeare

Elena Barham

Young Yorkshire writer 'related to Shakespeare' shortlisted for major award

A notebook of poems handwritten by Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë forms part of the treasure trove

Bronte treasures hidden away for 80 years could finally return to Haworth

Lucy Creighton, curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum, with the famous late 16th century portrait of Richard III on display at the museum. (Jonathan Gawthorpe).

Richard III and the story of his 'coming home' exhibition at the Yorkshire Museu...

Hotel Indigo in Stratford

Explore Stratford-upon-Avon and follow in the footsteps of Shakespeare

Christopher Eccleston as Hamlet at West Yorkshire Playhouse

Shakespeare's wit and wisdom still inspiring people to this day - The YP says

Twelfth Night is thought to have been performed on the night in question (Getty Images)

This is the story of William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night

The Twelfth Night signals the last chance to take down Christmas decorations (Shutterstock)

You should take your Christmas decorations down on Twelfth Night - here’s why

Frequently, bank and building society accounts are opened using false information

Conal Gregory: Beware the fraud minefield as £845m lost in banking scams

James Cundall CEO of Lunchbox Theatrical Productions (centre) with the full company on stage before for the final Performance of Mid Summer Night Dream at Shakespearse Rose Theatre in York.

New Yorkshire summer date and palatial home for pop-up Shakespeare theatre

Doncaster Rovers' Dino Maamria: Played in first Conference match for the club.

Sporting bygones: Doncaster Rovers set off on the road back from oblivion

Birdsong: The cuckoo makes an instantly recognisable sound that matches its name. (Picture: PA WIRE).

What's the name of the game when it comes to birds?

Cast announced for summer programme of plays at the new Shakespeare's Rose Theat...

WIN tickets to Shakespeare pop-up theatre

Martin Luther King acknowledges the crowd gathered for his I Have a Dream speech in 1963. (Picture: AP).

Martin Luther King, Churchill and Lincoln and the art of a great speech...

Lyceum Theatre Pirates of Penzance David Ian Centre Plays Frederick Dec 1990

Nostalgia on Tuesday: Theatres aflame

Christopher Eccleston plays William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Mark Casci: Businesses who fail to embrace technology are doomed to fail

The Tour de Yorkshire is expected to bring record crowds

How to get an 18-day break on just nine days' leave this spring

Lenny Henry outside the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds with Barrie Rutter.

Sir Lenny: How a blunt-speaking Yorkshireman helped me fall in love with Shakesp...

Poets cornered: What you didn't know about Yorkshire and China

Barrie Rutter in King Lear. Picture: Nobby Clark

That is t'question: Stellar cast gets behind company that gives Shakespeare a no...

Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan: The art of the pefect selfie
The other night my wife and I were at the theatre, sitting behind a group of young people from a school party who were taking selfies. I noticed that, in my sensible jumper and sensible glasses, I had ended up on at least one because I was so close. I raised my thumb and the lad taking the photo turned round and gave me what people in books used to call 'an old-fashioned look', and I knew that, just for a moment or perhaps for ever, I had achieved a kind of fame.

Queen Elizabeth II (left) stands with the President and First Lady of the United States Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, in the Oak Room at Windsor Castle ahead of a private lunch hosted by the Queen.

YP Letters: USA acts in its own interests, not in ours

The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor. Picture: National Portrait Gallery.

Have experts solved the riddle of William Shakespeare's will?

Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of A Fist by Sunil Yapa, published by Little Brown.

Shylock and other quick reads

Charlotte Bronte

Jayne Dowle: Lost in magic of English classics as page turns on old year

The new British passport design has been launched at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London.

Bronte snub as bumbling Passport Office names only two women among UK’s cultural...

Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Hockney artworks travel to China to showcase British culture

Project should shed light on overshadowed playwright

The Playhouse's production of Uncle Vanya

A truly diverse theatre gives everyone a voice

Breaking Bard as Yorkshire stages arts revolution

Collections facilitator for archaeology Adam Parker viewing the book

Shakespeare’s First Folio goes on display in York

Police moving with the times
INEVITABLY, there will be some consternation at the prospect of West Yorkshire Police becoming one of the first forces in the country to encourage leading figures from business and industry to join its senior ranks.

Education Secretary Michael Gove with children at the Cuckoo Hall Primary School in Edmonton, London

Tom Richmond: Gove’s impatience could undo his bid to drive up standards

Don’t ask what’s in a name if it’s the Bard

The Hollow Crown

Jayne Dowle: Battle lines drawn over plan to ditch Bard’s dull bits and cut the ...

Dr Ian Rotherham, and below, a swallowtail butterfly

Secrets of a wetland lost and forgotten

Monica Green

On The Spot With Monica Green

Winter of discontent as we await the truth

Third of children have not heard of Shakespeare

Review: Julius Caesar

Bard’s name barred in anti-film fight

Review: Gulliver's Travels (PG)*

First edition of Wuthering Heights sells for£163,000 as records tumble at book s...

Review: As You Like It ****

Grandmother's surprise at three-books debut deal

The mysterious talents of my grandmother, queen of crime

Andy Mycock: Enter the dragon slayer – but who else could be England's patron sa...

Rare Shakespeare portrait starts tour in Sheffield

Shakespeare portrait on its way to region