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 ...

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...

There are two main styles of poetic rhyming that we find in Shakespeare's verse: couplets and quatrains . Being able to easily and q...

Romeo He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But soft , what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet i...

Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream) How happy some o'er othersome can be! Through Athens, I am thought as fair as she. But...

I am a sap for all things motivational and inspirational. The Olympics. Hallmark commercials. Quote images on Instagram. These are thing...

I'm sure you're aware that Shakespeare's English and our modern English have a lot of differences; "thee", "tho...