Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Shakespeare’s language is often used by leaders in business and government to make their words more powerful and memorable. Through American history, ...

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, published by Bloomsbury on August 24, provides the ‘first fully corpus-based dictionary of Shakespeare’s language and most comprehensive since ...

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 ...

In this time of bipartisan acrimony, many on the left and on the right share one point of consensus: Shakespeare is a problem. Admittedly, this consensus exists at the ends of the spectrum, and ...

My parents grew up in England, and, perforce, they knew their Shakespeare. I am lucky and grateful they did because they introduced me to the language of the Bard. This was not so much by taking me to ...