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After almost 400 years Shakespeare is still loved in New York City's Central Park.

Jon Jory has a true love of theatre and interpretation, but he likes to think outside the box in his directing of plays. A play can be interpreted in any number of ways, depending on what we want to see in it: "Shakespeare does not mean; we mean by Shakespeare."

William Shakespeare is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature, contributing not only numerous plays but also his sonnets. Here examined is the man's life, and how both others and myself view his works.

Shakespeare often includes supernatural beings in his works. Often, the mortals who interact with these beings have seeminly no control over what happens to them. However, this is not entirely true.

The Forest Park Shakespeare festival offers a great cultural summer experience.

This is a critical review of the information supplied by PBS in its telling of the life and tiems of Shakespeare.

A review of the Summer Shakespeare Camp in Orlando Florida.

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet each portray situations where love is unrequited and achieved almost instantaneously that work to ultimately demonstrate that love is an institution worthy of great struggle.

William Shakespeare, the best-known figure in Renaissance literature, if not all of literature, was born April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a town near London.

A look into William Shakespeare and a summarization of his last completed play, The Tempest.

Elizabethan poet and playwright William Shakespeare was the ultimate wordsmith, and countless modern expressions have evolved from his writings. Here are several of my own favorites.

Paper examines Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A detailed overview of the classic of Othello by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Poetry, Spring, Marriage, humorous

Situated in the heart of the English midlands is a pretty little town called Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stratford is a market town that dates back to Medieval times, but more importantly, it is the birthplace of one William Shakespeare, Elizabethan playwright.

William Shakespeare created works that live on even centuries after they were written. If you are one who considers Shakespeare's words an of out dated, difficult to understand language and adamantly reply "it's Greek to me," you are quoting William Shakespeare!

There's been much speculation and debate about the true authorship of Shakespeare.

For hundreds of years, scholars have fought over the true identity of William Shakespeare.

Everyone goes to London but one of the most famous places to visit is Stratford-upon-Avon situated in the Midlands of England. Why do people go there? Mainly because of William Shakespeare.

Since the 1700s, people have been voicing doubts about whether or not William Shakespeare actually wrote the works attributed to him. Now it's all the rage.

In the beginning, the Sicilian School of court poets seemingly devised the sonnet form sometime around the 13th century.

A critical analysis of PBS' speculaiton regarding the life of William Shakespeare.

how both Shakespeare as a writer and Galileo as an astronomial visionary shaped their times as well as the future

Georgia Shakespeare is the second largest professional theatre in Georgia that produces plays and educational programs.

A list of great gifts for every Shakespeare lover and fun stuff for those new to the playwright. All of them can be found online.

Why does Shakespeare sometime do away with poetry and introduce prose in his plays?

Some say that the 46th Psalm is proof that Shakespeare helped with the translation of the 46th Psalm because there appears to be a hidden message in it with his name. Is this a coincidence or not?

The issue is complex, fraught with logic pitfalls even for those who defend the orthodoxy, but Shakespeare remains the easiest of any authorship candidate to defend.

If you want your kids to learn Shakespeare, try these movies.

Many scholars, historians and psychologists believe that romantic love is an invention, and Shakespeare has served as an inspiration and resource for lovers worldwide for centuries.

Acknowledged as one of the greatest writers that ever lived, Shakespeare was also one of the most mysterious.

Did you know that Shakespeare wrote a play so bad it wouldn't even be accepted by Fox if were sold as a movie today? Does that mean Shakespeare isn't the genius we've told he was?

A short discussion of love and desire in Shakespeare.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert on Shakespearean acting. However, when my director cast me in Midsummer Night's Dream, I became an expert on becoming his worst nightmare. Eventually, I learned from my mistakes. Hopefully, you will never make them.

An interview with Polly Shulman, author of ENTHUSIASM

A listing of all the films, plays, novels and other adaptions available based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A college-level essay on love in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Meaning of Dominion in Act I, Scene I in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

An analysis of the love relationships in Shakespeare's"A Midsummer Night's Dream."

One of the best movies with memorable and wonderful lines happens to also be a play, and not just any play, but a Shakespearean play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is just one of the best of Shakespeare's plays that have been made into movies.

How can a person simply relive a type of society through their mind while in sleep? Cue imagination.

Dominion was a very significant religious and political notion in Shakespearean times. Dominion refers to the actual power rather than legal power to control one's fate.

An analysis of one of the Bard's most popular plays.

This is an essay analyzing Dent's assertions regarding imagination in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Rumored to have been homosexual himself, Shakespeare often toyed with themes of sexuality in his works. This essay examines one play in particular, Twelfth Night.

Although Shakespeare's works The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night are considered comedies, they also signal the end of Shakespeare's comedy writing. An analysis of the plays reveal an inner darkness.

Traces the uses of the word "eyes" throughout Twelfth Night, focusing on instances of homoeroticism.

Trevor Nunn, the director of the newest movie version of the play Twelfth Night, added more romance between the characters that were falling in love so that a contemporary audience would accept that love as being legitimate.

Description of William Shakespeare and the life around this famous playwright.