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 ...

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 ...

Sir Patrick Stewart is recording all 154 of William Shakespeare's sonnets in a new audiobook project from the Tony-nominated stage and screen veteran. The actor will lean on his Shakespeare background ...

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 ...

In fact, Shakespeare’s most famous works and sonnets stemmed from periods where there was no theatre, no social gatherings and no certainty. Sound familiar? In 1592, the sudden outbreak of the bubonic ...

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, ...

My editors asked me for notes on books I’d been reading — about 300 words. I’ve already figured out that it’s not in me to be quite that concise. Imagine, instead, these entries as 20-line sonnets.