At a final dress rehearsal, Hanna laughed at how “The Tempest” has become a traditional farewell to theater-making, precisely ...

Sotheby’s will auction a rare complete set of Shakespeare’s first four Folios next month, with an estimated sale price of up to $6 million.

So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, long poems and sonnets. Smith was specifically ...