Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

Hello, and greetings from Hong Kong. You asked about a piece of “music that transforms, or emulates, or sheds new light on a different work of art.” One such is David Gilmour (vocalist and guitarist ...

"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." -- Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 The sonnet lives! This beguilingly protean form has endured for over 700 ...

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...

Seven months and nine episodes later, Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein will wrap up his online series “Thinking Shakespeare Live: Sonnets!” on Tuesday with an all-star tribute to the Bard’s ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous ...