Throughout the year, Chicago Public Library will offer dozens of screenings of Shakespeare and Shakespeare—inspired films; a brand new Shakespeare Read—Aloud Book Club, featuring Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and monthly peeks into its Theater Collection for interesting artifacts of fellow Chicagoans performing, reading and engaging with Shakespeare throughout our city’s history. Online resources that offer historical information about Shakespeare and his works, words he created, and even a chance to learn to talk like Shakespeare through the Mango Languages database, will be accessible from anywhere in the world. Throughout the year, the Library will prominently feature their extensive collection of Shakespeare’s plays and huge variety of books, films, audiobooks, musical scores and other works that he has inspired.