A prestigious school's head of English has called for William Shakespeare to be sidelined in GCSE exams - and suggested Instagram and TikTok posts be studied more instead. Freddie Baveystock, who ...

Below are 12 Shakespearean words that quietly changed their meaning over the last few centuries. In Shakespeare's time, ...

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 ...

As a Shakespearean scholar, I thought I knew his plays from the inside out, but the coronavirus revealed a whole new relevance to me.

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, ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

Prospero: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers ...

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 ...

Odds are that William Shakespeare never attended a Passover Seder, but that did not stop author Martin Bodek from imagining what a Haggadah written by the Bard of Avon would have looked like. “It be ...