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It's a bit of mystery why songwriters haven't prolifically adapted Shakespeare's poetry. Perhaps it's heresy or something, I...

Marlowe: (gasping) Neptune’s ocean shall not wash my blood clean from thy hand. Shakespeare: Forgive me, Kit. But the world must never know ...

With a quill for a sword, a parchment for a steed, Bill galloped through words at breakneck speed. He dreamed of fair maidens, of kings, and...

Ted went to dine at his local café, But his rear-end spoke up and had its say. With a rumble and a roar, People ran for the door, Leaving Te...

When bobbing along in iambic pentameter, with perfect metre and pace, 1000 lines of Shakespeare is about 1 hour – or all night when fulfilli...

Reading 2 to 3 hours every day for a year is probably enough to skim through the complete works of Shakespeare; and this will still probably...

I listened on YouTube to various attempts at turning Shakespeare’s sonnets into songs, but I don’t think these straight translations work ve...

It is so important with the poetic flow of Shakespeare that every word means something real to the actor, otherwise the viewer will get lost...

I appreciate the storytelling of real human experience, truthfully expressing core feelings that are shared by people across cultures and ti...

Wasn’t Shakespeare amazing. It would be so interesting to find out how his genius developed - what he saw and experienced in his life that h...