Why should you read “A Midsummer Night’s Dream?”

William Shakespeare's Anniversary

England's Literary Hotspots

Credits: Visit England

Galloping Foxley by Roald Dahl

Shakespeare Insult Kit

100 Years of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago today, has sold more than 250 million books worldwide. What made his writing so successful?

William Yeats was born on this day in 1865

Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s novels are so readable in part because she wasn’t an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser people. Her novels had a philosophy of personal development at their heart.

William Shakespeare, celebrating a 400-year legacy

Today the world commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare! This special anniversary year is a truly unique opportunity to visit his home town Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to celebrate the lasting legacy of the world's greatest playwright or to take part in one of many other celebrations. 

          

 More data about this celebration @ Shakespeare400 or Shakespeare's England 2016.

How Shakespearean are you?

How Shakespearean are you? is a wonderful tool from Oxford Press. It is a "How Shakespearean are you?" meter. You have to copy and paste some text into the tool, then "your words will be compared with all the words used by Shakespeare in his plays and our verdict will be delivered on its Shakespearean content." Running Teaching & Learning's post about the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground through the tool, it said we were 85% Shakespearean. "Is this the Bard I see before me?" it said! We are pretty happy with the result!

Things we say thanks to Shakespeare

Credits: Becky's Tumblr 
(through British Council - Education UK)