"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Shakespeare moved to London in the late fifteen eighties to be at the center of the city's busy theater life.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Shakespeare may have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity of his imagination and language made the plays his own.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

For example,in his play "The Comedy of Errors" Shakespeare borrows certain structural details from the ancient Roman playwright Plautus.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

But literature can help them understand human conflict, and he says no one has more insight into that than William Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework old ones.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Professor Yoshino says the Shakespeare play that deals most directly with the law is "The Merchant of Venice."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

There is also a zoo. And,every summer, visitors can watch plays by William Shakespeare in an outdoor theater.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

In the American state of Massachusetts, some teenagers who break the law are sentenced -- to Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Mister Jonson knew long ago that the works of Shakespeare would hold their magic through the ages.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

"So everyone has a sword?" "Assault and battery and you hand me a sword in Shakespeare?

VOA: special.2010.06.03