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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...