Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases ...

‘You speak a language that I understand not.’ Hermione’s words to Leontes in The Winter’s Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare’s plays today. For decades, ...

Featuring a cast and crew of 65, Fairfax High presents Shakespeare’s classic comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing.” But this ...

When Frank Wynne’s translation of Michel Houellebecq’s 1998 novel Atomised was published, in 2000, a reader complained to ...

American viewers might know Prue Leith best as an exacting yet encouraging judge on The Great British Baking Show (or as a ...

Mr. Lichtenberg is the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington. Earlier this month, theater lovers in the Bay Area got some very bad news. California Shakespeare Theater ...

So is this an especially fruitful time for Shakespearean antics ... it’s been praised by novelist Karen Joy Fowler, author and translator Jennifer Croft and writer Liz Michalski, who calls ...

Both in their Broadway debuts, Zegler and Connor have it in spades, bringing to life a production that maintains the original Shakespearean language while adding a more modern playfulness in the ...

If she has any trepidation about taking on the commanding mythology of Shakespeare on his home turf ... poetry is pedantic compared to the language of the plays. But I also think she was smart ...

So starts Southern Shakespeare Company’s Bert A. Mitchell, writer, actor, director, and board member. Mitchell is one of the writers working behind the scenes on the upcoming Shakespeare Night ...