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, 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 ...

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 ...

A not-so-minor detail was left out of a recent New York Times review of Robert Wilson's reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): The sonnets were the gayest ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

When Polonius asks Hamlet what he’s reading in a seeming fit of bewildered distracted madness, Hamlet response is simple: “Words. Words. Words.” When reading Shakespeare’s words, some feel as if ...

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 ...

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 ...