K through Adult

Shakespeare

Scenes, monologues, themed montages, and 40-minute cuttings — for Players of any age, in Shakespeare’s own language.

Leave the Language as Shakespeare’s Own.

When Players of any age step into Shakespeare’s words as written, they train ear, breath, and imagination together. DT:FC does not paraphrase or “translate” the original in performance — the language itself does the teaching. Roughly 37 plays survive; every one of them is still being staged somewhere, more than four centuries later.

“What translation did you use?”
— a repeated question from teachers after watching Players do the real thing. Answer: none.

TIP: Use Theatre Games as before Shakespeare rehearsal.

(For readers who want a bridge into the words, see our Colloquial pairings alongside the originals.)

440+ years, and still on stage

Shakespeare left roughly 37 plays; every one of them is still being performed somewhere in the world, more than four centuries after they were written. The Alternatives essay lays out how DT:FC works with that living body of scripts. Read Creating Fearless Shakespeare Scripts →

Translating Shakespeare into Chinese

Daniel S.P. Yang has spent decades translating Shakespeare’s plays into Chinese. See our full acknowledgements of the guides whose work made DT:FC’s Shakespeare section possible. See Honoring Our Guides →

Ask Shakespeare

Players and audiences send questions to “Shakespeare” — about lines, characters, choices, or a moment of stage fright — and we publish the answers. Browse the archive or submit a question →

Shakespeare

440+ years, and still on stage

Translating Shakespeare into Chinese

Ask Shakespeare

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Alternatives

Script Libraries

Colloquial

Ask Shakespeare

Honoring Our Guides