In addition to his 38 classic plays, William Shakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets that gave the world some of his most memorable lines (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”). In Sonnet Signatures, ...
Modern life has fried our attention spans. Could flexing our long term memory muscles help? NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to ...
A not-so-minor detail was left out of a recent New York Times review of Robert Wilson's reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnets at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM): The sonnets were the gayest ...
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 ...
A fusion of BeBop jazz standards and Shakespearean sonnets. Created by Carlotta-B-from-1593- clownish chanteuse & expert on Elizabethan nonsense syllables. Sonnets are for big feelings;Carlotta will ...
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 ...