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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one debates that Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers in the English language. What is debatable, however, is just how much today’s audiences actually understand that language. “I'll be ...

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 ...

When actors talk about tackling the works of Shakespeare, they talk about richly layered villains, eloquent lovers and the “Everests” of getting through an evening portraying Hamlet, Richard III or ...