Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

One in five (20%) believe classic love poetry only focuses on hetero-romantic love, while 60% claim the lack of ...

People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a study has found. The Bard’s sonnets, as well as works by literary figures such as ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by David Lehman, a poet and critic born in 1948. Among Van Doren’s students, in the flesh, were Lionel ...

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training will present a new online workshop: Voice & Text: Language through Sound ...

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 ...

As part of Reads, Door Shakespeare will present a staged reading of Goodview Poetry by Kaeden Dirksen on Feb. 10, 7:30 pm at ...

The allure of William Shakespeare reflects how works from the actor, playwright and poet from England can still be relatable during modern times. Even though he was writing about love, loss, power, ...