Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases that are ...

A 1964 Soviet stamp depicts William Shakespeare. "Stamp" via www.shutterstock.com In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he cries in horror: ...

I bought a book for my wife yesterday at Foyles in London, which I couldn't manage to stop reading once I had started. It's a new Bill Bryson book called Shakespeare: The World as Stage and parses the ...

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 ...

Several years back, an autograph dealer in Massachusetts offered to sell us a napkin purportedly signed by William Shakespeare from the Mermaid Tavern, a reputed drinking haunt of the English bard.