After making its impressive world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival, Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao's historical drama film Hamnet is ready for its limited theatrical release in the Unit ...

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 ...

Many would go on to identify the writings of William Shakespeare to be vintage classics, but wait, this is partially true for ...

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, ...

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 ...

Professor Emily Anderson gave a presentation about Shakespearean adaptations by playwrights and actors seeking to boost their own popularity on Wednesday night in Mark Taper Hall of Humanities.

These teachers – abrasive and irresponsible iconoclasts that they are – might tell me off for being glib. They are simply ...

Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert ...

The Shakespeare Sonnet Contest will announce the student winner on April 27. Credit: Ipek Obek Penn’s English Department will announce the student winner of their Shakespeare Sonnet Contest at an ...

In 2011, Kevin Spacey played Richard III at the Old Vic in London. Director Sam Mendes put his actors in contemporary dress. Spacey wore fringed epaulettes in the style of Muammar Gaddafi, playing ...

The Enduring Lessons of William F. Buckley Jr. England’s NHS Memory-Holes Its Defense of Incest Audio By Carbonatix A new study shows that few top colleges require students to read the Bard. ‘There is ...

Senior secondary school students may soon be delving into one of Shakespeare's plays, when a new curriculum is enforced in term 1 next year. If the Ministry of Education's draft curriculum, currently ...