Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is a witty, almost cheeky 16th-century subversion of the typical love poem. Instead of placing his mistress on a pedestal with over-the-top comparisons, he chooses a ...

Love is 'an ever-fixèd mark.' Kate Moncrief and Brendon Fox - No impediments to this marriage of true minds, true love ...

Yet today the Renaissance sonnet still has a reputation, even among scholars, for being about the unrequited love of a man ...

Instead of writing a series of love poems to a goddess-like female, as previous poets had done, Shakespeare’s sonnets express feelings of lust, mortality, infidelity and jealousy towards one of ...

they derive added value from their progressive mirroring over thirty years of a heart in which love and life were inextricably knit as one. The passion and insight of these sonnets reveal the heart of ...

A reading group for actors and playwrights, New Plays Aloud is facilitated by longtime Pier One contributor, Kate Rich. The ...

It is hard to imagine a world without Shakespeare. Since their composition more than four hundred years ago, Shakespeare’s plays and poems have traveled the globe, inviting those who see and read his ...