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 ...

If you've encountered William Shakespeare's sonnets anytime since 1609, it's likely been in the form of the edition from that year. Four centuries and countless editions later, we still know these 154 ...

Elizabeth Winkler’s debut, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, expands on her 2019 Atlantic essay exploring the “messy, ugly dispute” over the authorship of works attributed to Shakespeare.

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, I’d like to ...

"I hope these recordings create moments for listeners to recognize themselves in his words," says the acclaimed actor and narrator of the project Sir Patrick Stewart will narrate all of William ...

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 ...

Jamie Q. Roberts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a sweet ...

Commonly, auditions require contrasting one-minute classical and contemporary monologues. Shakespeare’s well-known speeches remain stalwarts of dramatic literature, and for good reason. However, how ...

The works of William Shakespeare have long been a staple of both high school drama and English classes around the country. However, despite their prevalence in the classroom, many students still ...

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 ...