The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rocked the literary world at the end of September with a bold announcement: Festival organizers are commissioning the translation of 39 Shakespearean plays into modern ...

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Should Shakespeare be translated into modern English? Columbia linguist John McWhorter thinks so: “He argues that it is time to stop pretending that we can easily absorb 16th-century English — ‘We ...

At the Wall Street Journal, Prof. John McWhorter (“A Facelift for Shakespeare”) makes the case for a “translation” of Shakespeare, endorsing the plan of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to publish ...

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...