Today’s Poem of the Day — by William Shakespeare (1564–1616), to mark the Ides of January — opens what for many of us will feel like a bleak winter week. The holidays have emphatically ended. Spring ...
In the one hundred fifty-four sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the seasons, invoked as metaphors for lovers’ joys and sorrows, turn up again and again, like pages in a calendar. “Shall I ...
While we shiver in the arctic weather and worry about fuel bills, we may find a little cheering respite in Shakespeare’s rollicking description of an Elizabethan household and its denizens in the ...