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 ...

An uproar ensued after it was reported that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF)—southern Oregon’s 80-year-old annual theatrical extravaganza—would be commissioning playwrights to “translate” all of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In William Shakespeare’s turn-of-the-17th century play, "The Merchant of Venice," a key character, Antonio, reminds us, “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” This may be the case in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...