Shakespeare’s sonnets provide an alternative to the traditional choices for audition monologues. Here are five of the best Shakespeare sonnets for actors.

I gave Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4 Sonnet, the same seven prompts — each designed to test a different strength, from emotional intelligence to code generation. While they both impressed ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is very different from the usual version, sheds more light on the ...

People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a study has found. The Bard’s sonnets, as well as works by literary figures such as ...

In his plays, Shakespeare created complex characters navigating universal issues. He additionally invented the Shakespearean sonnet, a 14-line classic poem form with a set structure and rhyme pattern.