The world’s mine oyster… Wear my heart upon my sleeve… Wild-goose chase… All that glisters is not gold… A tower of strength… In a pickle… Even a small selection of these phrases, coined by Shakespeare ...

This famous quotation begins Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy in one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The play is punctuated by soliloquies where we find ...

A group of students who came to West Yorkshire as refugees or asylum seekers are set to perform Shakespeare's The Tempest, after using the play as a way to improve their language skills. The teenagers ...

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rocked the literary world at the end of September with a bold announcement: Festival organizers are commissioning the translation of 39 Shakespearean plays into modern ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare had a way with words that helped shape the way we now speak English. The 400th anniversary of his death, on April 23, 2016 is approaching Saturday and the English playwright’s ...

This course portfolio details how revising a creative project assignment to incorporate a new learning goal—explain how a Shakespeare text relates to today’s world—helped students develop critical ...

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 ...

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” ― William Shakespeare, Othello “There was a star danced, and under that was I born.” ― William ...

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143) Shakespeare coined many phrases and expressions that have crept into the English language, and ...