CHRIS UHLMANN: Nearly 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare's works seem a world away from hip-hop. But a New Yorker's sought to compare Shakespeare's apples with rap music's oranges by ...
Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status is underpinned by multiple myths — ideas about language that have departed from reality (or what is ...
If you can't tell 'ear-kissing' from a 'bone-ache' while reading the works of William Shakespeare, a new dictionary may finally help you out. 'The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language', ...
William Shakespeare, a linguistic master, shaped the English language with his innovative wordplay. He gifted us common words like 'eyeball,' 'bedroom,' and 'swagger,' enriching our vocabulary. His ...
Scholars say that William Shakespeare used as many as 30,000 different words in his plays and poetry. They further estimate that he knew about a quarter of all the words circulating in English during ...
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. But a new graph by data scientist Matt Daniels shows that some of today's most popular hip-hop artists ...
The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare's language. Here, ...
William Shakespeare, born in 16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon, England, didn’t simply use language as a tool to tell tales, he wielded it like a master craftsman, shaping it to fit his vision. In fact ...