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 ...

As old texts are gradually digitized, the number of words whose lineage was previously traceable only to Shakespeare's pen has sharply decreased. This kind of makes sense, after all, and does not in ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...

I’ve met Shakespeare’s ghost. The encounter was more drudgery than mystery, I’m afraid. Twenty years ago, my doctoral supervisor casually informed me that I would need to read every tragedy written in ...

William Shakespeare, the 'Bard of Avon,' born in 1564, remains an unparalleled literary giant. His prolific career yielded 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and narrative poems, profoundly shaping the English ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

UN Web TV: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13bm14nww On 23 April 2025, in commemoration of the English Language Day 2025 at the United Nations, the UN Movie ...

With the Nov. 26 cinematic release of Hamnet, CU Boulder scholars consider what we actually know about the famed playwright and why we’re still reading him four centuries later “Friends, Romans, ...

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