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Many European languages have two words for the second person pronoun ‘you’ where Standard English has just the one.

What did London mean to Shakespeare? Curiously, it seems he never thought of London as his home.

One of the ironies of dramatic irony is that you pretty much have to have it. Unless all the characters are on stage for the whole performance, then it’s inevitable that the audience knows more than the characters.

The country Shakespeare was born into in 1564 was in recovery from the trauma of thirty years of acute social and spiritual division.

The poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue. It is delivered by a first-person speaker or narrator, and addressed to his lover.

The English language in its original state arrives in the isles of Britain on the lips of the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon adventurers who waded ashore to take possession of a country the Romans had lately vacated.