Imagine a vaudeville skit that incorporates a generous helping of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, some set to music, and uses a lighthearted storyline to connect them. That’s “Sonnets, Songs and Sorry ...

Sonnets has appeared to draw on antique topoi of permanence and change and to escape other sonnet sequences' intertextuality and attachment to a set of narrative and lyric conventions. In fact, ...

An oil painting dated 1609 that is the portrait engraved by Martin Droeshout for the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623. Heritage Images/Corbis The life and plays of William ...

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Tales of yearning and mortality flare up in offbeat spaces in Spooky Action Theater’s immersive “Sonnets for an Old Century.” In staging José Rivera’s script — a collection of poignant, bracingly ...