ALISON ST JOHN: Shakespeare may have been more proud of his sonnets than he was of his plays but most of us are more familiar with his great body of work for the stage. However more than 150 sonnets ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. Backed in spots by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, ...

On March 21, beloved British actor Patrick Stewart shared a reading of William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” on Instagram. The 14-line verse, one of 154 composed by the English poet and playwright, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Sonnets by William Shakespeare for the iPad is the new high-water mark for what we can and should expect from a deluxe digital edition of a great work of literature. Sonnets by William Shakespeare for ...

Sir Patrick Stewart has one of those voices where, even if he read the phone book (which is what people used to use before cell phones), it would be captivating. Factor in his nostalgia-friendly pop ...

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 ...

In his Sonnet No. 98, William Shakespeare wrote: “From you have I been absent in the spring,/When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim/Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,/That heavy Saturn ...

Elizabeth Winkler’s debut, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, expands on her 2019 Atlantic essay exploring the “messy, ugly dispute” over the authorship of works attributed to Shakespeare.

Reporting in Nature, researchers write of encoding a variety of files—jpg, mp3, txt and pdf—in strands of DNA. Lead author Nick Goldman says DNA is extraordinarily long-lasting, compared to today's ...