An adventurous reimagining of the Bard’s timelessly political play aims for gender and generational fluidity but gets bogged down by laboriously longwinded lines.

Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, featuring three productions. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Students can have fun and learn a lot by making some 21st-century linguistic and thematic tweaks to the Bard’s plays.

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar centers on the assassination of the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, and the political turmoil that follows. The play dramatizes the events leading up to Caesar’s death, the ...

Shakespeare sucks." "I thought it was obvious that it was a joke, but people did not take it as a joke," he said.And the ...