THE 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this Saturday, has prompted a wave of celebrations of the great poet and playwright. Here are two of his sonnets, dealing with his overarching themes of ...

Today on his birthday, here is one of Shakespeare's haunting sonnets. Love and mortality, often interwoven, are leitmotifs of the 154. Love dominates this one with its springtime imagery.

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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 ...

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An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting ...

BECAUSE their beauty and power of emotion clothed in thought are supreme, and because in them we feel drawn closer to the heart of Shakespeare than anywhere in his plays, his Sonnets have aroused ...