A Shakespeare game online

The BBC has a fantastic MURDER MYSTERY Shakespeare game called the Seven Noble Kinsmen for you to play online. It has over 2 hours of game play and lots of mini games. You have to become a member bbc online which is very easy (and free!). You can also find out which male or female Shakespearean character you are most like.

This site has 4 games to play

• How well do you understand Elizabethan English? Test your brain with the SAT—Shakespeare Aptitude Test.
• Are you ready for Hamlet's Duel? Only your knowledge of Shakespeare trivia and quick responses can help Hamlet defeat Laertes (or else he'll be skewered by his opponent).
• Think you really know Shakespeare's memorable quotes? Find out in Name That Play.
• Truly, What's In A Name? Help Juliet find out as she plays a Shakespearean dating game to uncover the identity of three potential suitors

Could YOU have been a success like Shakespeare if you'd lived in the 16th century? This game will let you make the choices- see if you are a winner!

Another quick game to play, especially if you like figuring out words is this fill-in-the -gaps game. You can choose from several plays.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare!

Wednesday 23rd of April is William Shakespeare's 444th birthday. Well, at least we THINK it is. We know that Shakespeare DIED on April 23 1616 because we have a record of his death, but we only assume his his birthday is on the 23 because he was baptised 3 days later on the 26th of April. It is probably no coincidence that St George's day falls on the 23 April as well!

Shakespeare wrote fantastic plays and poems, and is regarded as England's best and most famous playwright. Some of is most famous plays are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth and Richard III. You may even have heard some of his sonnets at weddings such as Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment..) or the very famous Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?).

One thing which Shakespeare did really well was reinvent the English language. He used 29,066 different words in his works in around 100,000 lines of writing- pretty impressive. Did you know tht Shakespeare actually invented a lot of words that we use today? Words like advertising, caked, compromise, elbow, eyeball, lonely, worthless and gossip. If you follow the link you can even see where abouts in his works they appear.
But it's not just words, Shakespeare also invented a lot of phrases we use all the time in our everyday speech. If you've talked about finding out the naked truth, talked about your flesh and blood or turned into a green eyed monster, then you've used a Shakespearean phrase!

Finally, entertain yourself by generating some genuine Shakespearian insults- lots of fun!