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 ...

Shakespeare was originally intended as populist entertainment, not as elitist art, and Grassroots Shakespeare aims to perform it as such. “A lot of people look at Shakespeare and think it’s ...

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 ...

From left, Joshua Dhir as Lennox, Troy Walton as Duncan, Scott DiMeo as Malcolm and Shelby Nance as Donalbain in a SCAPA production of Macbeth. Herald-Leader Young generations might be more fluent in ...

What would Shakespeare think of 21st-century language? Would he lament its ‘destruction’, or applaud its many innovations? Shakespeare, after all, is believed to have invented over 2,000 words and ...