Skylight Theatre Company has set dates for an accessible new modern English translation of Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale, ...

Judge Selya enlivened his writing with original vocabulary and colorful figures of speech. “Selyaisms” included asseverate, ...

As spring awakens the natural world, unexpected creatures — from mice to a mysterious short-tailed shrew — find their way ...

However, if you take the time to understand all of the pitfalls and trials that many go through before reaching their goals, ...

Samuel Johnson quoted Shakespeare’s work thousands of times in his English dictionary, published in 1755. He noted Shakespeare coined or introduced thousands of words and phrases into the ...

Shakespeare toed the line. What’s good for the Bard is good for all, but Shakespeare did a dozen weird things we’ve since ...

Romantic love is infused with a certain variability and impermanence, but its reality can "empirically" endure inside us.

No language has ever been as ubiquitous, and the U.S. government is now giving it its official due. “Official” is a very ...

Thanks to copious borrowings over the centuries, especially from Latin and Norman French, there are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary, whereas German has about ...

Worf and his son Alexander have never had the best relationship, but finally, after 35 years, there are signs of change, ...

You might assume that the dictionary is the least likely place ... 1996: 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare School authorities in Merrimack, New Hampshire, found nothing amusing about ...