In a previous article, I wrote how Shakespeare’s sonnets provide an evocative alternative to more traditional choices for classical monologues in professional auditions. In this piece ...

“Sonnet 116” isn’t thought to have been widely circulated or quoted, as Emma Smith, a Shakespearean scholar at Oxford, says ...

William Shakespeare’s 460th birthday was in April. Love him or hate him, no other author has influenced the English language ...

D r. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure ...

“It is better to read the sonnets for universal values than to lose their poetry by turning them into riddles about Shakespeare’s biography,” warned the scholar C. L. Barber. But sonnets ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting, and romancing, in London If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 was discovered in a 17th-century poetry collection among Elias Ashmole's papers. This version, adapted as a ...