For actors, the stage is a playground. Lines of text and stage directions present opportunities for performers to challenge themselves and make choices that are both bold and clear to audiences.

Students at Lyons Township High School will perform Williams Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night or What You Will” this weekend. The play concerns a shipwreck, lost twins, mistaken identity, ...

The new Roland Emmerich film “Anonymous,” which opens today, puts a big-budget spin on the old canard that the works of Shakespeare were written by the Earl of Oxford. The gist is that a commoner ...

Friends, Countrymen: King Charles III loves borrowing from Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s time, this would have been the idea of the ‘King’s Two Bodies,’ a political metaphor that distinguishes between ...

PHD Candidate, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia The expression “star-crossed lovers,” one of the earliest recorded “knock, knock” jokes and many other one-liners, ...

Across recorded history, humanity has been blessed with some truly fantastic artistic works, such as the paintings of Michelangelo, the writing of William Shakespeare, and Ghostbusters. Does ...

A real-life Shakespearean crime story (Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent) Some stories are so dramatically revealing of the tragic flaws in human character we think of them as ‘almost ...

I first learned the pleasure of Shakespearean insults in ninth grade, when I was assigned to read “Henry IV, Part I.” My teacher was a gifted man named Greg Lombardo who instilled in our class a sense ...

When it comes to insults, no one does it quite like William Shakespeare. What, you thought all he did was write tragic romances and a lot of vaguely problematic comedies? Well, in between writing ...