Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word ...

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the professor who found it. reading time 3 minutes While conducting research at ...

LONDON — If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not exactly a ...

There have been a lot of writers since the 16th century. But there's only one Bard. William Shakespeare, who was born one of eight children 461 years ago on April 23, 1564, lived just 52 years. But in ...

A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...

As with everything that the coronavirus leaves in its wake, the suspension of operations by most major theaters around the country feels surreal—though surely both inevitable and necessary—and follows ...

Catherine Clarke reads her new and original history of England - told through poetry. Through five poems across a week, Clarke takes us onto battlefields, inside royal courts, below stairs of great ...