Elizabeth Winkler’s debut, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies ... The poet of the sonnets appears to be writing in old age. In Sonnet 73, he describes himself as approaching death ...

THE season of remembrance is now officially over for this year, but Shakespeare’s great pondering on mortality and the power of love may make a fitting coda to it.

In fact, Shakespeare ... the illustrious Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”), Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) and Sonnet 73 (“That time ...

which also marked the start of his unprecedented run with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He went on to appear in over sixty RSC productions, including his Olivier-winning turn as 'Claudius ...