For example, Venus and Adonis and Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594, and one of the articles of Shakespearean faith has been that they are “more youthful work” than the Sonnets.

The Sonnet Project site is a growing archive of videos for Shakespeare’s sonnets, growing by about 2 videos per week. After its inaugural $50,000 Kickstarter campaign was met, production began.

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is ...

4. Sonnet 71 In Sonnet 71, the poet anticipates his own death and urges the beloved to forget him when he is gone. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead,” he writes.

For example, in Sonnet 20, a male poet finds a young man beautiful. He champions his feminine qualities, referring to him as a “master mistress,” and talks about how the youth steals men’s ...

First published 400 years ago, Shakespeare's sonnets might never have been put to press had it been left to the author to decide things. As Clinton Heylin, the author of the new book So Long as ...

Performers practicing one of seven short plays in Love's Fire, based on Shakespeare sonnets. Love’s Fire, a series of seven short plays based on Shakespeare sonnets, will be performed at Rochester ...

Below is an example of an Elizabethan, or Shakespearean sonnet, written by hip-hop poet Devon Glover aka Sonnet Man, about the founding of Southern Shakespeare Company — try to have as much fun ...