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 ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare was 'undeniably bisexual' and wrote 27 of his sonnets to men despite his 34-year marriage to a woman, researchers have revealed. Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sonnet L’Abbé’s new book is a labour of love; one that had her lost at times. It is a triumph of effort, imagination and tenacity – and you might say the book she was born to write. For Sonnet’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary values? In Sonnet's ...