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 ...

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is usually ...

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 ...

Love’s Fire, a series of seven short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets, will be performed at Rochester Institute of Technology starting Nov. 10. This is the latest of RIT’s yearlong commemoration of ...

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 Men ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "I hope these recordings create moments for listeners to recognize themselves in his words," says the acclaimed actor and narrator of the ...

‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets” is wildly entertaining — shockingly so, since it has no plot, is in German and is nearly three hours long. Most of its 25 poems have been set to music by singer-songwriter ...

To celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, some well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. Historian and broadcaster Simon Schama has selected the episode ...

A group of musicians have set some of Shakespeare's famous sonnets to music. The musical director of the project, the early music specialist Robert Hollingworth, told Andrew Marr that the album brings ...

ive years ago, as I sat through lectures on South Asian literature, moved by the integration and celebration of Pakistani identity in the curriculum, I came across the poet M Athar Tahir. Tahir, ...