How has Shakespeare changed your life?

We all struggle with personal transformations and face changes beyond our control. Shakespeare's characters do this on a grand scale. In many ways they're just like us, men and women struggling to live according to the rules and expectations of their society – only in iambic pentameter. read more

Shakespeare based the limitations of his characters on his observations of human frailty. Change is inevitable. Sometimes I welcome it, but not often. In fact, my default reaction to life's inevitable and difficult transitions has always been to run away, play it safe. Mine is a normal, even universal reaction to change and conflict. read more

The basic thesis of Stephen Marche’s How Shakespeare Changed Everything becomes obvious very early on (as in, it is expressed in the title). According to this fun, lyrically written and well-researched book, here are just ten of the many ways that Shakespeare changed everything:1. read more

How Shakespeare Has Changed My Life Learning about Shakespeare was fun for me and I learned some new things. Some of the things that we talked about in class and that we read in Romeo and Juliet changed my thinking on other topics and gave me a different point of view. read more