3. Honor what makes Shakespeare Shakespeare.While we mess around with plot and structure, there’s an aspect of the work that we do hold rather sacrosanct: the use of language. We do a lot of ...

was the fact that Henry Neville was locked up in the Tower of London for his part in a plot to overthrow the monarchy — a pretty good reason to get serious. The backers of Shakespeare say this ...

Shakespeare has used this to allow the audience to imagine the play's plot from the very beginning. The image of a pair 'of star-crossed lovers' is very tragic and symbolises two people who have ...

Citizens of the 21st century are well used to mass surveillance of the cyber variety, but a new book exposes just how prevalent spies and informers were in Shakespeare's life ... of this narrative ...

In the “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,” scholar James Shapiro describes the way the plot and other events of the day influenced the three important tragedies the Bard completed that ...