Your brain on Shakespeare.

PositionLiterature - William Shakespeare - Brief article

After four centuries, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth remain among literature's most captivating stories, But here's another reason to enjoy William Shakespeare's 16th-century plays: They're good for your brain, Researchers at Liverpool University in England observed heightened brain activity in 30 people reading the bard's original plays, compared with when reading them in modern English. The theory: Shakespeare's inventive use of language, grammar, and...

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