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 ...

Yet this is not the most pressing problem with contemporary Shakespeare staging. The biggest problem facing contemporary Shakespeare is the indifference to the playwright’s original language and ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN Web TV: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13bm14nww On 23 April 2025, in commemoration of the English Language Day 2025 at the United Nations, the UN Movie ...