In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – and death – with some of the Bard’s sonnets, transformed into short films by the New York Shakespeare ...

Dotimas was performing in the “Shakespeare Extravaganza” on Nov. 1, the culmination of Haine’s six-week Shakespeare Unfolded workshop presented by ActLiveNow, with sessions meeting once a week.

London, England (WHTM) On this day in 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe went to Stationers’ Hall to register a new book. The Worshipful Company of Stationers, aka Stationers’ Company, was a ...

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...

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This originally appeared on The Chimerist. Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

Today is both the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth (in 1564) and of his death (in 1616), but this year has the added significance of being the 400th anniversary of the publication of "Shakespeare's ...

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 ...

Peter O'Toole announced his retirement from show business on Tuesday. The actor is best known for the title role in Lawrence of Arabia 50 years ago. Melissa Block spoke to O'Toole in 2007 and offers ...

Theater Review | 'Love Is My Sin' By Charles Isherwood Time, that indifferent destroyer of all things mortal, seems to stay its scythe, to borrow a metaphor, for the brief passage of “Love Is My Sin,” ...