As You Like It
Part of my affection for some of the meatier language in As You Like It comes from Sherlock Holmes. In...
Hamlet
The little compartments you’re seeing on the fronts of all these cards are from a typesetter’s tray that hangs on...
Twelfth Night
I think I’ve seen this one two or three times, all live productions. The one that sticks most in my...
Troilus and Cressida
This play takes its name from the two self-absorbed lovers who make up the play’s watery B-plot. The real action...
Measure for Measure
Throughout this play, pregnancy is a recurring theme. Most notably, one of the secondary leads, Claudio, is sentenced to death...
Othello
Some of Shakespeare’s most intricate stories involve the bestowal of a token of affection between two lovers. The love-trinket is...
All’s Well That Ends Well
When Helena heals the king of a grave illness, he allows her to choose her own husband. Helena chooses military...
King Lear
In Grade 5, our reading primer told the story of a rich old man who asks his three daughters to...
Timon of Athens
Timon is one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ – works that contain elements of comedy and tragedy but in such a...
Macbeth
As with Julius Caesar, Macbeth is one of those treasure troves of well-known fragments of the English language that you...
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