Female presenter: So whilst we may use some of Shakespeare’s words and phrases, we certainly don’t speak in blank or rhyming verse, but if we did, it might be quite revealing. Male theatre ...

Lorianne Tika Lemba of The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company compares Shakespeare’s verse rhythms to hip-hop. It is thought that Shakespeare used rhythm to give direction to actors. Placing her hand ...

The complexity of human-written verse goes over their heads and might ... Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Then, they instructed 1,634 study participants to read 10 poems to test their ...