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 ...
This originally appeared on The Chimerist. Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting ...
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 ...
The poem was discovered by researcher Leah Veronese. University of Oxford While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a ...
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 ...
On the 400 anniversary of his death, the BBC and Austrian broadcaster ORF, with the support of the European Broadcasting Union, have decided to commission a New Shakespeare Songbook, offering today’s ...
Shakespeare’s sonnets are considered some of the literary genius' most popular works, with some - such as Sonnet 18’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day” - becoming the best-known works in ...