For some reason, people hear "iambic pentameter" and they. just. freeze. It's like they're convinced that they will NEVE...

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The first Shakespeare play I ever did was A Midsummer Night's Dream , when I was in sixth grade. I've done it several times over as ...

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Our patterns of speech have various rhythms, made up of combinations of stressed or unstressed syllables or words. In reality, the amount ...

Alright, it's time to deal with the elephant in the room. We're gonna talk about that big scary phrase you hear thrown around all t...