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 ...

Here are 20 of the playwright’s most famous quotes about life and love. Prince Hamlet’s soliloquy in the Danish-set ...

As old texts are gradually digitized, the number of words whose lineage was previously traceable only to Shakespeare's pen has sharply decreased. This kind of makes sense, after all, and does not in ...

William Shakespeare. The name itself brings to mind dusty textbooks, actors in tights, and maybe a high school English class ...

“Iconoclastic” as I am thought to be on race, I have been struck by how equally unexpected one view of mine has been considered: that much of Shakespeare’s language is impossible to comprehend ...

One night during a 1996 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Seattle’s Children Theatre, a family grabbed their coats and went to the house manager. “They told him, ‘We’re really having a wonderful ...

Shakespeare gives children as young as three a confidence boost, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s director of education has said. Exposing pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to complex language ...

A man in Elizabethan dress, wearing an ass's head, spouts Shakespeare in Portuguese while borne aloft by seven nearly naked women marching in time to Mendelssohn's wedding march. So ends the first ...

The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare's language. Here, ...