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Digital humanities and Macbeth's "creepiest" word
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Digital humanities and Macbeth's "creepiest" word

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Celebrate Halloween and Shakespeare with the remarkable story of Macbeth’s “creepiest” word — a common, simple term whose unusual use in the play was identified by data analysis in 2014 and highlighted in a recent online column.

Quiz: The animals in Shakespeare's plays
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Quiz: The animals in Shakespeare's plays

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Take our quiz on the amazing variety of animals in Shakespeare’s plays, from a mix of dogs and horses to song birds, ferocious wild animals, and much more.

The origins of the English history play - Excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
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The origins of the English history play - Excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War

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What is the English history play? “A dramatic study of civil conflict in England,” writes David Bevington in this excerpt from the newly published Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War. “Above all, its purpose is to explore the causes, the…

Order It: Jaques's "All the world's a stage"
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Order It: Jaques's "All the world's a stage"

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“All the world’s a stage,” says Jacques in a famous speech from As You Like It about life and the passage of time. Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines that follow.

Shakespeare's roles in the Caribbean
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Shakespeare's roles in the Caribbean

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Shakespeare is woven into the culture of the British Caribbean, with a special emphasis on Caliban and The Tempest–but does he reflect the colonial past, influence anti-colonial authors, or both? Scholars Giselle Rampaul and Barrymore A. Bogues traced his complex…

Quiz: Which characters use foreign words and phrases?
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Quiz: Which characters use foreign words and phrases?

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Take this quiz to see if you can tell which characters in the plays used foreign words and phrases, including the famous three-word Latin question, “Et tu, Brutè?”

Excerpt: 'Shakespearean' by Robert McCrum
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Excerpt: 'Shakespearean' by Robert McCrum

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When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke in the 1990s, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. The First Folio became an endless source of inspiration for “journeys of…

Order It: "If music be the food of love" from Twelfth Night
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Order It: "If music be the food of love" from Twelfth Night

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“If music be the food of love, play on.” Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines of the opening speech of Twelfth Night, with its memorable reference to a bank of violets.

Richard III: My kingdom for a horse
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Richard III: My kingdom for a horse

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“My kingdom for a horse!” A titanic villain in Shakespeare’s history plays, Richard III departs the stage and this life at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Mark the battle’s anniversary with these posts and podcast episodes.

Excerpt – ‘All's Well’ by Mona Awad
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Excerpt – ‘All's Well’ by Mona Awad

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Mona Awad’s new, darkly funny novel All’s Well tells the story of a theater professor who is convinced that staging All’s Well That Ends Well will remedy all of her woes. Along the way, she meets three strange benefactors with…

Excerpt - Shakespeare and Forgetting - by Peter Holland
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Excerpt - Shakespeare and Forgetting - by Peter Holland

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Shakespeare and Forgetting by Peter Holland considers how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. The excerpt below focuses on the character of Sir John Falstaff, who appears in several of Shakespeare’s plays. Why do…

Folger Finds: A Shakespeare quilt
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Folger Finds: A Shakespeare quilt

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When you picture what’s in the Folger collection, many people imagine books and manuscripts from the early modern period — and we do have a lot of those! But the Folger also collects a variety of Shakespeare-related objects, including this…

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