The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare $600 Audio Partners Group Hamlet’s Act III/Scene I soliloquy — the “To be, or not to be” speech — is perhaps the most famous theatrical monologue in history. You ...

Guest columnist Beth Ann Fennelly analyzes Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 for its enduring relevance. The sonnet describes a speaker's journey from self-pity and envy to finding joy through love. Shakespeare ...

When you think of sonnets, perhaps your mind goes immediately to Shakespeare and rhyming, metered verse that’s often about love. But Houston poet Cedric Ary attempts to lend the art form to modern ...

Although Shakespeare's birthday and death date (April 23) are already passed, and I am writing this at the very end of Poetry Month, I want to acknowledge both occasions by celebrating this superb ...

When the Greek Plutarch retired from his civil servant post in the Roman Empire, he began his study of the lives of the great or noble statesmen of both Greece and Rome by writing first of all about ...

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue," Hamlet advised the Players. Is it possible American actors have taken that advice a little too literally? Or, ...

My mother picks up the pestle and mortar and does to saffron what the clerics have done to her country/ pours in steaming water till the liquid in the bowl becomes the Caspian swallowing the sun/ it ...

Reading the deserved critical huzzahs for the current production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone has me thinking about a bee always in my bonnet. Critics swoon over the "poetry" of ...

There are probably people who have read “War and Peace” on their smartphones, but just the thought of spending that much time squinting at a little screen makes my eyes hurt. A little haiku, on the ...

If science fiction has taught us anything it's that artificial intelligence will one day lead to the downfall of the entirety of mankind. That day is (probably) still a long way away, if it ever ...