In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – and death – with some of the Bard’s sonnets, transformed into short films by the New York Shakespeare ...

This originally appeared on The Chimerist. Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting ...

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William Shakespeare, renowned playwright and poet, died on April 23, 1616. Four hundred years later, a large crowd gathered Saturday in Harvard Square to read aloud all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ...

ALISON ST JOHN: Shakespeare may have been more proud of his sonnets than he was of his plays but most of us are more familiar with his great body of work for the stage. However more than 150 sonnets ...

In “Naming Thy Name,” William Shakespeare’s sonnets, and those of his close friend Henry Constable, are examined by Elaine Scarry for evidence of a deep and abiding love affair. Sometimes her evidence ...

Shakespeare is perhaps best known for the beauty of his words. A new project from data artist Nicholas Rougeux seeks to give those words a new, visual form, by transforming all 154 of Shakespeare's ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets during his life. Carrying around the complete volume has never been physically burdensome since each poem is a mere 14 lines. But a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tanya Mohn reports on road safety, sustainable transport, and cycling. A new sonnet to commemorate Shakespeare’s 448 th birthday ...

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 ...