We know that Shakespeare has the perfect lines to accompany us into battle or out onto the stormy heath,

but does he have the right stuff to take us on a daily commute or a trip to the grocery store?

From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folger Director.

One of the biggest challenges for anyone teaching Shakespeare is making the plays feel relevant.

We tend to remember the big set pieces and the famous speeches,

but what about the poetry that speaks to everyday life?

If you focused on those lines, how would that change your experience of reading Shakespeare?

David Crystal is a linguist who has published over 100 books.

Ben Crystal is David's son, an actor.

Together, they've co-authored several books on Shakespeare's language,

including the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary,

Shakespeare's Words, a Glossary and Language Companion, and the Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean pronunciation.

The last time the crystals appeared on this show in 2014, they discussed their work on original pronunciation, or O.P.

That's the study of the way English might have sounded in Shakespeare's Day.

Performing Shakespeare in OP can uncover meanings and puns otherwise lost in modern pronunciation.

For their most recent book, Ben and David combed through all of Shakespeare to find the lines that spoke to everyday concerns.

Love, loss, money, nature, children, arguments, celebrations.

They found thousands of quotable lines that could apply to daily life in any century.

Then they grouped the lines by seasonal theme and chose one for each day of the year.

For example, the quotation for the day I'm recording this comes from All's Well that ends well.

It laments the loss of mystery in our modern age.

They say miracles are passed and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things

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