Let's talk about TROCHEES! These are the exact opposite of iambs, which I explain here. This quick, fun video will make you a trochee ...

Do you know how to tell the difference between verse and prose? This is something that trips a lot of people up, but my quick, minute-long...

Stabbed. Poisoned. Drowned. Hanged. Beheaded. There are some gory ways to die in Shakespeare's plays. Even George R. R. Martin, the au...

One of the most-used tools for understanding Shakespeare is Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary , commonl...

Now that you've got a handle on the difference between verse and prose , what perfect iambic pentameter is , and what scansion is (and ...

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...

When was the last time you went to see a show? I'm not talking about the latest Bond movie (although I'm sure it's great), but a...

One of the very first things you need to learn as a classical or Shakespearean actor is how to identify when you are speaking in Verse o...