War and battle in the plays of Shakespeare always tend to comment about the era in which he was writing in, but at an event at the Austin building Wednesday evening, these battles were seen in a ...

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 ...

Professor Emily Anderson gave a presentation about Shakespearean adaptations by playwrights and actors seeking to boost their own popularity on Wednesday night in Mark Taper Hall of Humanities.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2011, Kevin Spacey played Richard III at the Old Vic in London. Director Sam Mendes put his actors in contemporary dress. Spacey wore fringed epaulettes in the style of Muammar Gaddafi, playing ...

When actors talk about tackling the works of Shakespeare, they talk about richly layered villains, eloquent lovers and the “Everests” of getting through an evening portraying Hamlet, Richard III or ...