Shakespeare was a hero who helped make English the most spoken language around the world, something that we have all benefited from. Why would anyone want to try to rewrite and reinterpret that ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the ...

Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that ...

Claudio falls in love with Hero at first sight. Many Shakespearean characters fall in love at first sight, most famously in Romeo and Juliet. Claudio arrives in Messina with Don Pedro, Don John ...

Narrator: Shakespeare’s heroes can be fairly clear cut – brave, well-meaning characters, trying to do the right thing against the odds and their own failings, like Julius Caesar or King Lear.

Shakespeare shows us that young love can be ... If Claudio had got to know Hero, and really loved her, he would have believed her over Don John. Their situation contrasts strongly with Benedick ...