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 ...

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 ...

I’ve met Shakespeare’s ghost. The encounter was more drudgery than mystery, I’m afraid. Twenty years ago, my doctoral supervisor casually informed me that I would need to read every tragedy written in ...

Theater, artificial intelligence, and co-creation with deaf communities come together to design an automatic translation app. New paper in JCOM O’Boyle, Van Landuyt, and the other partners of the ...

Michael Kahn deserves great credit for creating and nurturing the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, and he is correct in arguing that it isn't necessary to costume Shakespearean plays in Elizabethan ...

There’s no shortcut to memorizing Shakespeare, and that’s a good thing. The language can feel intimidating, the lines are often in verse, and the plays are long. If you don’t understand everything the ...

The video is part of The Old Globe's Thinking Shakespeare Live series. The Tony Award-winning The Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional not-for-profit regional theatres. Now in its ...

a word that sounds the same as a word in another language, but which has a very different meaning to coin to create a word or a phrase e.g. 'Shakespeare coined at least three hundred words' coinage ...

Glancing at any page William Shakespeare wrote can make you feel like you have returned to the Elizabethan era. It isn’t just high school, college, and drama school that provide a reason to explore ...