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“The Office” and Shakespeare
Channel your workplace aggression
Create your own ruff
DIY Shakespeare
Quotes for business

Stories to read aloud
Renaissance Recipes
The Bard on film
Watch animated shorts
Crossword Puzzle
Throw a Shakespeare-themed party

Bard Bell-Ringers
Spend some time with Shakespeare
Become the Bard
Write like Shakespeare
Hip Hop Shakespeare
More ways to talk like Shakespeare 
Words and phrases still used today 

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- Instead of you, say thou or thee(and instead of y’all,
say ye).
- Rhymed couplets are all the rage.
- Men are Sirrah, ladies are Mistress, and your friends are all called Cousin.
- Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back’d toads.
- Don’t waste time saying "it," just use the letter "t" (’tis, t’will, I’ll do’t).
- Verse for lovers, prose for ruffians, songs for clowns.
- When in doubt, add the letters "eth" to the end of verbs (he runneth, he trippeth, he falleth).
- To add weight to your opinions, try starting them with methinks, mayhaps, in sooth or wherefore.
- When wooing ladies: try comparing her to a summer’s day. If that fails, say "Get thee to a nunnery!"
- When wooing lads: try dressing up like a man. If that fails, throw him in the Tower, banish his friends and claim the throne.
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