Sir Patrick Stewart has one of those voices where, even if he read the phone book (which is what people used to use before cell phones), it would be captivating. Factor in his nostalgia-friendly pop ...

Perhaps you’ve been to Shakespeare in the Park before, but hast thou ever heard the fine and gentle words from those festivals uttered by… Sir Patrick Stewart?! Whilst in the midst of a worldwide ...

Love’s Fire, a series of seven short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets, will be performed at Rochester Institute of Technology starting Nov. 10. This is the latest of RIT’s yearlong commemoration of ...

This originally appeared on The Chimerist. Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting ...

I was recently charged with the happy task of matching one Shakespeare sonnet to each of the 25 specially chosen titles being given away for World Book Night on Monday. It sounded like one of the more ...

William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

Shakespeare's lyrical poetry has long been considered marginal to his plays - is it because he addressed his poems to a man? In the latest exclusive online essay from the London Review of Books, ...

Academics have claimed that William Shakespeare was “definitely bisexual” following a fresh analysis of his sonnets. As part of their study, Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson ...

This is not a conventional work of criticism and is all the better for it. Indeed, so far does it depart from the norms of academia that at times it is unclear whether Paterson is writing about ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a sweet ...