Shakespeare may have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity of his imagination and language made the plays his own.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

"When you have your own secret language, that's what makes it magic."

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

Director Roxana Silbert, "What's great about what we're doing is it allows them to come to it in their own terms and of course the thing that young people find most alienating about Shakespeare is the language, which feels like a different language to them and this isn't in anyway attempting to copy Shakespeare's language - it's written by young people in a language they would use."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07