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Shakespeare's plays really are complicated - with Antony and Cleopatra the trickiest to get your head around, study find...

With their dense wordplay, old English phrases and complex poetic meter, Shakespeare plays can be notoriously difficult to understand.

Shakespearean redemption and regicide, in parks

William Shakespeare’s brightest comedy and darkest tragedy are both taking the stage in and beyond Queens this summer, against the backdrop of the setting sun.Hip to Hip Theatre Co...

Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!

The Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play makeAs a latecomer to Game of Thrones...

De teksten van William Shakespeare hebben na 400 jaar nog niet aan kracht ingeboet

Shakespeare by AI and Ady Stokes

20 Shakespearean Words You Use Every Day

We can all thank the renowned playwright for livening up our vocabulary into the 21st century!

I used to hate Shakespeare ... until a 200-year-old book changed my mind

I got in an argument once with a guy who was dismissing white, Anglo-Saxon culture, saying it was overrated and overrepresented. He thought Americans needed to learn about other cu...

What Shakespeare knew about economics before economists did

This topic came to my mind quite unexpectedly one quiet evening at home. I turned to my wife and said, ‘Shall we watch an English movie tonight?’ She smiled and asked, ‘Which one?’...

There's A New "Romeo & Juliet" Adaptation, And My 8th Grade English Self Is Sat

Our favorite Shakespearean story modernized for the microdrama age.View Entire Post ›

TWELFTH NIGHT Sutton Hoo, Suffolk

SHAKESPEARE: OUTDOOR, OUTRAGEOUS AND OPEN-HEARTED   Start by knowing that this is a bangingly entertaining evening out under the Suffolk skies, with ragamuffin costumes and lovely...

Sausage roll-filled Romeo and Juliet coming to Oxford theatre

The Rubbish Shakespeare Company will bring its award-winning family comedy version of Romeo and Juliet to the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford.

English Theatre of Rome marks 30 years with pop up Shakespeare

The English Theatre of Rome celebrates 30 years by offering a week of pop up Shakespeare in three different venues from 19-26 July. There is free entry to the two-hour performance...

Cambridge: ‘Think themselves wise, but are fools’

Where now does Cambridge University turn? How can it ever recover the respect its 817 years of quality higher education have earned it? William Shakespeare, scholarly, but not of a...

Oscar-winning actor’s secret role ... as King Charles’ speechwriter

Sir Mark Rylance was consulted by the British monarch to help him with impressive Shakespeare references during his US state visit.

Royal Shakespeare Company gives verdict on new theme park

The Royal Shakespeare Company has given its verdict on a new theme park near Bicester.

Andy Burnham looks 'like a fawning publican'

Andy Burnham, "how like a fawning publican he looks". How did William Shakespeare know?

Tickets Alert: Tours of Middle Temple Hall as part of a Shakespeare-themed theatrical performance

Visitors can explore the legendary hall linked to Shakespeare after an outdoor theatrical journey through the Temple gardens.Read more ›

Oxford Theatre Guild staging reimagined Shakespeare play outdoors

Oxford Theatre Guild will present All’s Well That Ends Well in Oxford’s University Parks from July 14 to 25, setting the tale in bohemian France.

Flirty Text Fails That Would Turn Shakespeare in His Grave

A critical analysis of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Ambition, power and guilt

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the most famous tragedies in English literature. The play tells the story of Macbeth, a brave soldier who becomes interested in becoming kin...

Royal Shakespeare Company backs £600m theme park plan

A company submitted a planning application for the attraction in the Oxfordshire countryside last year.

Trust paid £3,000 to save Shakespeare's birthplace from being shipped to US

In the 1840s, Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon faced the threat of sale, as American showman P.T. Barnum aimed to move the historic home to New York. A dedicated com...