Join me for a week-long SHAKESPEARE CHALLENGE! I'll be working my way through Timon of Athens, but feel free to pick any play you...

If you've ever wondered what a sonnet is, I'm gonna break it down for you right now! Simply put, a sonnet is a type of poem, f...

Last week on Breaking Down the Bard, I explained couplets , or two lines of verse in a row which have an ending rhyme. This week, we'll...

One of the things I love about Shakespeare is that he gave us such unique and individual characters in his plays. Some of them are so fleshe...

The soliloquy . It's a crazy word that theatre peeps (and others not in the biz) throw around, knowing full well that it's going to ...

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