Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater. The stage is littered ...

The controversial Common Core state standards want students to read William Shakespeare’s works, but some teachers don’t like the idea. Dana Dusbiber, a teacher at Luther Burbank High School in ...

For the assignment for the sixth and final week of my Shakespeare class for Johns Hopkins University’s Odyssey lifelong learning program, I asked the participants to choose a specific passage from one ...

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More has been written about Hamlet than about any other Shakespeare play, and attitudes toward the work’s main character have shifted over time, says Eric C. Rasmussen, a professor of English at the ...

The controversial Common Core state standards want students to read William Shakespeare’s works, but some teachers don’t like the idea. A California high school teacher, Dana Dusbiber, wrote recently ...