In addition to penning 37 plays, William Shakespeare was a prolific composer of sonnets -- crafting 154 of them during his life. Now, more than 400 years after his death, the Bard's words are ...

First published 400 years ago, Shakespeare's sonnets might never have been put to press had it been left to the author to decide things. As Clinton Heylin, the author of the new book So Long as Men ...

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 ...

English critic Samuel Johnson once said of William Shakespeare "that his drama is the mirror of life." Now the Bard's words have been translated into life's most basic language. British scientists ...

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...

In fact, Shakespeare’s most famous works and sonnets stemmed from periods where there was no theatre, no social gatherings and no certainty. Sound familiar? In 1592, the sudden outbreak of the bubonic ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. I think the Sonnets are often taken as being autobiographical and depicting a real-life situation ...

Don Paterson's 40 Sonnets does pretty much what it says on the dust-jacket. In doing so, it joins a noble band of sonnet cycles from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Shakespeare's 154, John Berryman's Sonnets ...

Now’s the time for “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” Terrance Hayes’ electric, new book. In his five previous poetry collections — “Muscular Music” (1999), “Hip Logic” (2002), “Wind ...