The film’s climax is stunning, but producers Steven Spielberg and especially Sam Mendes have directed enough Shakespeare on stage to make the archaic language accessible to a contemporary audience ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - The notion that Ozark Mountain residents spoke a form of Elizabethan English was good for tourism in the early 20th century, but it was a bit of an exaggeration, said Susan ...

Smith Island and Tangier Island natives have a distinctive accent and dialect. Popular belief holds their speech is directly descended from Elizabethan English, the language of Shakespeare. Could this ...

THE publishers of the new “Elizabethan Shakspere ” give three reasons for its inception: — “1. Shakspere is in many passages an unintelligible author to those who read him without a knowledge of the ...

SPRINGDALE — The notion that Ozark Mountain residents spoke a form of Elizabethan English was good for tourism in the early 20th century but it was a bit of an exaggeration, said Susan Young, outreach ...

A nearly 500-year-old Elizabethan ship was recently excavated by marine archaeologists from the bottom of a quarry lake in southern England, some 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the shore of Kent County, ...

A British Shakespearean master is coming to the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to train theatre students to perform the Bard’s work in original Elizabethan English - the language first spoken in ...