In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "aggrocultured" Shakespearean sonnet — displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced.

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Rufus Wainwright unleashes one of his most ambitious projects yet: a collection of the Bard’s notoriously idiosyncratic sonnets ...

Sonnets are poems with a specific format and rhyme scheme. Shakespeare wrote on love, friendship, heartbreak, nature, humanity and most of these sonnets were parts of his plays.

Researchers have stored 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in a tiny strand of synthetic DNA in ...

Addressed to a ‘fair youth’ and later, ‘a dark lady’, the sonnets are less well known than Shakespeare’s plays. A journey into them is an unsettling and beguiling literary adventure.

In Sonnet 104 Shakespeare tells us that he has known him for three years. If that disclosure belongs to 1589, the acquaintance was formed in 1586, when the poet was twenty-two.