One night during a 1996 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Seattle’s Children Theatre, a family grabbed their coats and went to the house manager. “They told him, ‘We’re really having a wonderful ...

“Iconoclastic” as I am thought to be on race, I have been struck by how equally unexpected one view of mine has been considered: that much of Shakespeare’s language is impossible to comprehend ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Clark is head of UVU's Theatrical Arts program, and has directed nationally ...

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 ...

A man in Elizabethan dress, wearing an ass's head, spouts Shakespeare in Portuguese while borne aloft by seven nearly naked women marching in time to Mendelssohn's wedding march. So ends the first ...

My parents grew up in England, and, perforce, they knew their Shakespeare. I am lucky and grateful they did because they introduced me to the language of the Bard. This was not so much by taking me to ...

The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare's language. Here, ...