Stratford-upon-avon

A replica of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon is set to be built in the Chinese city of Fuzhou.

William Shakespeare's hometown is bracing for a surge in visitors from around the world this month as it marks 400 years since the death of the foremost playwright in the English language.

Days after arriving in London in 1603, King James I issues a warrant naming Shakespeare's acting troupe The King's Men. A law student summarizes his favorite plot device from "Twelfth Night" in a diary entry from 1602. A vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon describes Shakespeare as "a natural wit without any art at all," and an early critic calls him an "u...

With the new year on the horizon, a slew of travel magazines and industry experts have been gazing into their crystal balls to predict the buzziest destinations of 2016.

Archaeologists from Britain's Staffordshire University have unearthed the site of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare's 'kitchen' at New Place, which was the bard's family home in Stratford-upon-Avon at the height of his career for almost two decades.

An eccentric American showman wanted to buy the 16th Century Stratford-upon-Avon house where famous British playwright William Shakespeare was born and have it shipped, brick by brick, to New York in the 1800s.

A replica of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon is set to be built in the Chinese city of Fuzhou.

William Shakespeare's hometown is bracing for a surge in visitors from around the world this month as it marks 400 years since the death of the foremost playwright in the English language.

Days after arriving in London in 1603, King James I issues a warrant naming Shakespeare's acting troupe The King's Men. A law student summarizes his favorite plot device from "Twelfth Night" in a diary entry from 1602. A vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon describes Shakespeare as "a natural wit without any art at all," and an early critic calls him an "u...

With the new year on the horizon, a slew of travel magazines and industry experts have been gazing into their crystal balls to predict the buzziest destinations of 2016.

Archaeologists from Britain's Staffordshire University have unearthed the site of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare's 'kitchen' at New Place, which was the bard's family home in Stratford-upon-Avon at the height of his career for almost two decades.

An eccentric American showman wanted to buy the 16th Century Stratford-upon-Avon house where famous British playwright William Shakespeare was born and have it shipped, brick by brick, to New York in the 1800s.