Statues honouring the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare have been installed on train platforms along a West ...

Nonliterary types might find touristy Stratford-upon-Avon to be much ... The prime sight in town is Shakespeare's Birthplace, a half-timbered Elizabethan building where William grew up.

It was the biggest house in Stratford-upon-Avon more than four hundred years ago and it was purchased by William Shakespeare for one hundred and twenty pounds which was a fortune in those days.

Today William ... of Shakespeare’s family remain relatively little known—including the fact that William’s father, John, was once appointed official ale-taster of Stratford-upon-Avon.

In what is a “feat of transformation” worthy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in the past 20 years or so the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon has “morphed” from a “cunning tourist trap ...

London Underground has released a special edition tube map to celebrate the ... for 23 April, when Shakespeare is believed to have died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616.