If you have kids or students at home during this crisis, the Clear Shakespeare podcast can help! Word-by-word audio guides through Hamlet, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream:

RT @KathrynVSantos: If you’re inclined to quote Shakespeare today, don’t.

OK I'm in.

RT @kukukadoo: my dad keeps ranting about how colleges can’t teach shakespeare and milton anymore because of woke and nothing will convince….

Shakespeare used trochaic tetrameter to indicate supernatural characters, like fairies or witches. And, of course, so does the Llama Llama series.

One problem with most productions of Waiting For Godot is that they don't cast the leads as a comedy team. Laurel and Hardy were a big influence! Straight man/goofy guy, Tall skinny guy/short fat guy. Instead, Vladimir and Estragon are usually too similar.

If you only know Maggie Smith from her famous late roles, you're missing out on one of the greatest ever classical performers. At the National in the 60s and Stratford Festival in the 70s, she was a titan. What a stunning career.

At the height of his Happy Days fame, Henry Winkler made this adorably nerdy after-school special about Shakespeare

F. Murray Abraham was apparently an amazing Cyrano in 1980, and I wish more actors with actual big noses got to play that part.

Everyone knows James Earl Jones from Darth Vader and Mufasa and CNN. But in the 60s and 70s, he staked out a real claim as the great American Shakespeare actor. Othello, Lear, Claudius, Oberon and more. The voice was unforgettable, but he was so much more.

Excellent meet-cute: they met on a production of Hamlet.

A friend of mine went to Mankato West High School in the early 2000s. You will be pleased to hear that Tim Walz built their Twelfth Night set.

First academic to use "Old and quite weird?" as the title of their paper on the witches in Macbeth is the winner.

Attention opinion columnists of America: there is no Shakespeare analogy for this.

A weird thing is that Shakespeare famously described Margaret of Anjou as the "she-wolf of France," and then Thomas Gray lifted that title for a poem in 1757 to describe Edward II's Queen Isabella. So now she just gets to be the She-Wolf of France? The position is taken!.

RT @chrislhayes: Too bad for Charles I he didn't have a John Roberts.

This also doubles as an Othello preview.

This is all correct.

The technical term for a nonsense refrain (like "hey nonny nonny") is. a dildo.

RT @bwestcineaste: Excellent news for Andrew Scott/Shakespeare fans:. The recording of Scott’s Hamlet (AKA Hamdrew Scottlet) @AlmeidaTheatr….

Ayo Edebiri / Rachel Sennott Twelfth Night. Make it happen.