Schoolchildren struggling to understand Shakespeare are concerned that studying the works of the world's greatest dramatist will not help them get a job when they leave school. The vast majority – 77% ...

“ They aim at it And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts.” Hamlet, IV. v. 9, 10. THE ascendency which much of our English literature holds over us is too largely one of opinion. There is a ...

Although Shakespeare is the most famous—and lauded—writer in English, most adult readers, theatergoers and students would be hard pressed to admit they fully understand the complexity or complete ...

William Shakespeare’s works are brilliant and inspiring, both in his day and in ours. But they were written in the Elizabethan era of the late 1500s and early 1600s, using expressions of his day. “We ...

Shakespeare may be one of the most revered playwrights of all time, but some of his work sure is hard to read. Even Sir Ian McKellen thinks so. In fact, he suggests that reading Shakespeare is a task ...

WILLMAR -- The public is invited to a Ridgewater College workshop on Shakespeare's classics Monday at the college theater in Willmar. Former Ridgewater theater professor Drew Hampton and current ...

The park will filled with The Bard’s works when the Susquehanna University Shakespeare Club holds its first Shakespeare in the Park at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Selinsgrove Commons, 2 N. Market St.

More than three-quarters of people preferred AI poems to ones by William Shakespeare - GETTY People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a ...

Julian Fellowes caused controversy recently after saying that not everyone has the ability to understand Shakespeare's language. Whilst promoting his new film Romeo and Juliet he told the BBC "When ...

Shakespeare wrote in such a way that all men may find beauty and understanding in his words. For this reason, he is called our most universal poet; we can all respond in some measure to what he says.