Travel with Puck as he gathers the special flower 'love-in-idleness' in a 1909 film adaption of Shakespeare's play “A Midsummer Night's Dream”

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At the feast of the Phaeacians, Odysseus relates the story of his blinding of Polyphemus, the Cyclops.

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“Tell me, Muse…”

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The cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production of Othello offering insight into the play's language.

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“O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!”

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Professor Mark Thornton Burnett explaining why people should not be dissuaded from watching translations of Shakespeare's works, because though he wrote exclusively in English, the stories, conflicts, and emotions are retained across cultures.

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William Shakespeare explained in five questions.