In 1974 I was in fifth year at school. We were studying Macbeth, and by studying, I mean our English teacher, Miss McNeill, handing out battered copies of Shakespeare’s finest and then picked class ...

OUTSIDE A CLASSROOM IN TONIGHT’S FIVE FOR GOOD. HOW A HISTORIC COMMUNITY THEATER IS WELCOMING STUDENTS FOR FREE TO LEARN THROUGH FILM. GOOD MORNING. HI. WELCOME. COME ON IN, MY FRIENDS. THE DOORS OF ...

Minister for Education Helen McEntee wants works by William Shakespeare to remain compulsory for Leaving Cert English.

University of Birmingham academics and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have joined forces in a new project to make Shakespeare accessible for deaf children in schools. This pioneering initiative ...

I read Jerry Davich's column entitled "Why doesn't Shakespeare speak English?" with a great deal of interest. Back in 1996, when I was a student teacher at Munster High School, I posed a question to ...

Double, double toil and trouble! William Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy “Macbeth” is receiving a brand-new adaptation courtesy of Joel Coen, one half of the duo behind films such as “No Country For ...

Filmmaker Joel Coen wanted “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” his adaptation of the Shakespearean staple about the ambitious Scottish king, to be rooted in theatricality but to avoid looking like a filmed play ...