Language plays an important part in Shakespeare’s plays. He uses language in different ways to entertain the audience. Learn about the words he invented and why we still use them today.

Shakespeare’s plays were written over 400 years ago, and some of the language can be unfamiliar to modern audiences. Shakespeare helped transform the English language. Many words and phrases ...

It hardly needs saying, but I’ll say it anyway. Sigourney Weaver is a massive Hollywood star, visible from Hackney to ...

You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, ...

Indeed, I have read claims that as many as half the words in the English language come from Shakespeare. This is simply impossible. About 21,000 different words survive in the poet’s texts.

For hotshot director Jamie Lloyd to have secured her services to bring Shakespeare back to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – the oldest and most prestigious playhouse in London – for the first ...