The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. As Dobson tells ...

Shakespeare’s sonnets provide an alternative to the traditional choices for audition monologues. ... Sonnet 29 puts on a masterclass in poetry that a performer can leverage into a one-minute ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous ...

“Shakespeare’s sonnets are an island of poetry surrounded by a barrier of icebergs and dense fog,” wrote Harvard scholar Douglas Bush. Other mysteries abound.

New To Radio 4 Extra. Marking St George’s Day, Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please – Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Poet Daljit Nagra heard his first Sonnet ...

The book is a collection of 154 sonnets, poems consisting of 14 lines. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the lines are divided into four subgroups-usually-with the first three subgroups having four ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite.

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not exactly a ...

The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. As Dobson tells the Times , “The printed copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets was ...