Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

Perhaps no writer had a better talent for capturing the beauty, power, and unpredictability of nature than William ...

While it is tough to pick a favorite work of William Shakespeare ... and go south in the winter. One of the most famous poems ...

THE BASICS: William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” presented by Shakespeare In Delaware Park, running from June 20 through July 14, 2024, every Tuesday through Sunday at 7:00 pm on ...

Shakespeare’s narrator explores his passionate, compulsive desire for a “lovely boy” across 126 poems. If there’s a characteristic mood to Shakespeare’s dozens of queer sonnets ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill stands as a living monument to the British playwright and poet who has influenced American literature, philosophy, and politics. Home to the largest ...

A chilling tale for a toasty summer night kicks off the 49th season with the opening night of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” which runs through July 14 (Tuesday – Sunday).

“The Apprentice” looks at the early career of the former President. Why are we so enamored with such origin stories, and what—if anything—do they have to teach us? Critics at Large Critics ...

Shakespeare and Ovid: 'What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend': poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets 4. 'In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life': exposing art's sterility. The ...