Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s insulting whom. In truth, Shakespeare's works are ...

Walking around the room with a stack of binders and tablets in hand, Elsa Rowe, community engagement manager of the Scarborough Public Library, assigned a role from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” to ...

Caltech is famous for science, not the humanities, so it may come as a surprise to many that a Caltech student organized a Shakespeare Read-a-thon to cover the entire oeuvre in a 24 hour period! Jed ...

FSU's outdoor production of "Twelfth Night" reminds audiences of Shakespeare prevalence in modern literature and performance spaces.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . According to Bruster, Shakespeare's "bad handwriting" and 24 broad spelling patterns affected the way The Spanish Tragedy was printed, and illustrate ...

The public school system in the United States is the very proof of G. K. Chesterton’s prophecy that the “coming peril” facing culture was “standardization by a low standard.” Nowhere is this more ...

On Baldwin's would-be 100th birthday, the author of a Shakespeare adaptation series reflects on how the Black icon impacted her reading of the Bard Marco Calderon; Anthony Barboza/Getty I was 38 when ...

Molly Dugan shared on social media what her English students think of Romeo. Turns out that Gen Z thinks Romeo wasn't such a ...

Illustration of Shakespeare reciting "Hamlet" to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. People rarely argue over the question, “Who is the greatest writer of all time?” Even though several literary ...