Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Macbeth” may be Shakespeare’s most transfixing tragedy, but its dark magic often fizzles in the theater. The stage is littered ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets must be the most uneven work in the entire canon of English literature, slipping from blandness to a jarring intensity, and in Don Paterson's new book they receive a commentary ...

What does William Shakespeare’s immortal Sonnet 29 really mean? Was the melancholy Bard transmitting a coded message? The hypothesis that the playwright concealed his secret Catholic identity during ...

Students of American theater history have long known them as the "Astor Place riots," named for the New York theater in 1840 where two nights of mob violence led to state militia shooting 30 people ...

However well you think you know the poems, Don Paterson's quirkly Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets will make you think again, says Adam O’Riordan In Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets, the winner of the Queen ...