WASHINGTON — William Shakespeare, born in England about this time 451 years ago, is in little jeopardy of being forgotten in literature or popular culture. His native language has gone global. His ...

Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths — ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is ...

Christina Porter is a literacy coach at Revere High School in Massachusetts and she’s co-taught William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “Midsummer Night’s Dream” to classes of English-language ...

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rocked the literary world at the end of September with a bold announcement: Festival organizers are commissioning the translation of 39 Shakespearean plays into modern ...

But a recent wave of scholarship—driven by computerized quantitative analysis and digital databases that enable searching of thousands of texts at once—is revealing that some of this may be more hype ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Commonwealth Shakespere Company (CSC) has announced the establishment of ...

Thanks, Shakespeare! Let's talk about Ben Jonson, revenge tragedies, and court masques. This week on Crash Course Theater, Shakespeare is dead. Long live Shakespeare. Well, long live English theater, ...

Any college-level English professor should be familiar with Shakespeare and some quotations from his writings. There is Thermites telling us in Troilus and Cressida (Act 2, Scene 3), "The common curse ...

No one debates that Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers in the English language. What is debatable, however, is just how much today’s audiences actually understand that language. “I'll be ...

William Shakespeare is 400 years dead as of April 23, but his heritage seems in excellent shape. His plays are loved, admired and endlessly produced; our greatest actors regularly turn down bags of ...

WASHINGTON — William Shakespeare, born in England about this time 451 years ago, is in little jeopardy of being forgotten in literature or popular culture. His native language has gone global. His ...