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 ...

A not-so-minor detail was left out of a recent New York Times review of Robert Wilson's reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): The sonnets were the gayest ...

London, England (WHTM) On this day in 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe went to Stationers’ Hall to register a new book. The Worshipful Company of Stationers, aka Stationers’ Company, was a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jean-Luc Picard is doing The Bard. Sir Patrick Stewart is lending his iconic voice to an audiobook in which he reads William ...

Elizabeth Winkler’s debut, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, expands on her 2019 Atlantic essay exploring the “messy, ugly dispute” over the authorship of works attributed to Shakespeare.

On March 21, beloved British actor Patrick Stewart shared a reading of William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” on Instagram. The 14-line verse, one of 154 composed by the English poet and playwright, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "I hope these recordings create moments for listeners to recognize themselves in his words," says the acclaimed actor and narrator of the ...

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 ...

BECAUSE their beauty and power of emotion clothed in thought are supreme, and because in them we feel drawn closer to the heart of Shakespeare than anywhere in his plays, his Sonnets have aroused ...