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 ...

I've heard over and over again (even just this week) that there are "no good roles for women in Shakespeare". I'll be th...

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

If you can "kick your face" and "belt for Jesus", I'll bet you already have a lot of skills that you could use as a ...

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...