As I listen to my friends sprinkle “Pookie” into conversation like a modern-day sonnet, I can’t help but wonder: Is this what poetry has become in the 21st century? Sonnets, ...
The costume of Shakespearean Faerie is also represented in the recognisable illustrations of Arthur Rackham accompanying A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Longleat has a first edition of this work ...
There’s a longstanding practice of an era’s great Shakespeare actors having their portraits documented by their painterly peers. William Hogarth depicted David Garrick as Richard III on the ...
The shoes Obasanjo left behind in Aso Rock are too big for Buhari or Tinubu. It is like putting “a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” as William Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth.
Most readers can’t distinguish classic works by poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations generated by artificial intelligence. And when asked which they prefer ...
Get some wedding inspiration from the Bard, with SoGlos rounding up some of Shakespeare's most romantic readings. Boasting approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a host of other ...
“Practice” by Rosalind Brown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) This debut novel concerns an undergrad who is stuck in her room working on an essay about Shakespeare’s sonnets. Brown – whose ...