For “The Favorite Poem Project,” I chose a well-known sonnet of Shakespeare’s because I love how it speaks to readers today.

Celebrations are being held around the world today to mark the birth and death of William Shakespeare. While his exact birth date is not known, his baptism is recorded in the Parish Register at Holy ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’ergreen my bad, my good allow? You are my all the world, and I ...

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William Shakespeare's wisdom still inspires individuals of all generations. His words transcend poetry; they investigate the ...

Shakespeare is a biographer's nightmare. Not because the information about him is so overwhelming or incriminating but because it is so slight and so stubbornly innocuous. We forgive our great poets ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Tariro Mzezewa When Caroline Randall Williams’s book of poetry “Lucy Negro, Redux” was published in 2015, she hoped its words would transcend the ...

Editor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a theater critic for The Times of London and regular broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics. She is also completing a Ph.D. in ...

CHICAGO - What if Shakespeare had never become Shakespeare? Heaven forfend, but that was the thought running through my mind while watching the stage adaptation of “Shakespeare in Love” – on the ...

If you are an Andy Griffith fanatic, you know that no one can throw a rock or recite a declaration of love better than Ernest T. Bass. With this being the month of love, we didn’t choose Sonnet 116 by ...