Shakespeare

About the Episodes | 2016 Broadcast Dates | Key Players | Sponsors and Credits The Folger Shakespeare Library’s radio documentary Shakespeare in American Life explores the English language’s most important playwright and his influence on American performance, politics, and popular culture. Each hour-long episode, narrated by Sam Waterston and created by Richard Paul, deepens our understanding of Shakespeare and the American identity. Shakespeare in American Life is part of The Wonder of…

The atoms that make up your body were produced inside a star and have had a very long adventure.

“Ted Cruz has reminded many of us of Marc Antony trying to thread the needle at Julius Caesar’s funeral,” said Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch, who compared Antony’s artful twisting of the words “honorable man” to Cruz’s memorable use of the phrase “vote your conscience.” “The repeating refrain ‘but he is an honorable man’ so devastatingly communicates the exact opposite of the words’ surface meaning. "‘Vote with your conscience,’ indeed.” #JuliusCaesarOSF #OSF2017

New productions prove the Bard's plays are adaptable to diverse casting and contexts.

140 Likes, 3 Comments - Oregon Shakespeare Festival (@osfashland) on Instagram: “That guy is everywhere. #Shakespeare #CanonInADecade #OregonCoast #Shakespeare400 #SHX400…”

Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, one copy of the first collected works of his material is on display at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of

London, England, 1622; William Shakespeare has been dead for seven years. Six years prior, in 1616, Shakespeare’s rival, playwright Ben Jonson, had published a collection of his own plays.

Most of us are more familiar with Roman history and England’s Wars of the Roses from...

Shakespearian causes of death

If you've explored all the nooks and crannies of my website, you might have stumbled across my Shakespeare What-Ifs series of mini-comics. For a long time there have only been two installments, but I've finally gotten my act together and penned a third one. Let's take a look at Macbeth !

A very merry/happy Christmas to all my readers! Let's kick this party off the Shakespeare way. Everybody sing along!

Listen to this Shakespeare Unlimited interview with Ian Doescher, the creator of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars book series.

|Lue DouthitLue Douthit, director of literary development at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, discusses the history and rationale of the Play on! Project with OSF to translate 39 of Shakespeare’s plays.

Today the Royal Shakespeare company is live-broadcasting its current production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona ! Not familiar with the play? No worries! I've got you covered.

Tom Toro’s Daily Cartoon, about Shakespeare in the Park.