With Denzel Washington on screen, Daniel Craig on stage and 'Sleep No More' off-Broadway, the time has come again to meet Macbeth.

Scholars say that William Shakespeare used as many as 30,000 different words in his plays and poetry. They further estimate that he knew about a quarter of all the words circulating in English ...

IV. OUR path through Shakespeare’s works and life has brought us near at least to the question of his own view of the value and functions of the former, and his intentions with regard to them.