Post Tagged with: "Sonnets"

Rufus Wainwright Pays Homage to Shakespeare With ‘A Woman’s Face’ From New All-Star Album

By Gary Graff for Billboard, 17 March 2016 Most people talk about William Shakespeare in terms of his plays. But Rufus Wainwright would rather have the sonnets. For proof of why he feels that way, the singer-songwriter offers Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets, which comes out April 22 and includes two versions of “A Woman’s Face (Sonnet 20),” which Billboard is premiering exclusively below. “I guess a […]

March 20, 2016 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Generate Your Own Star Wars Shakespearean Sonnet

Generate Your Own Star Wars Shakespearean Sonnet

By Bonnie Burton for CNET, 4 September 2015 Not everyone can be as talented a scribe as the Great Bard himself. No, not George Lucas. We’re talking William Shakespeare, or more specifically “Shakespeare Star Wars” book author Ian Doescher. Due to the success of Doescher’s “Shakespeare Star Wars” parody books that retell the “Star Wars” saga in the same style of Shakespeare’s iconic plays, […]

September 10, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Moving sonnets: Zurich Ballet dance Shakespeare’s intimate poems

Moving sonnets: Zurich Ballet dance Shakespeare’s intimate poems

By Judith Mackrell for The Guardian, 25 August 2015 Zurich is all too easy to dismiss as a city of bankers. A giant Swarovski crystal tree graces its annual Christmas Market, its streets are unfeasibly clean, and even its graffiti looks tidy. Yet it is also a city of surprise, not least of which is its fast-expanding arts scene, and its […]

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Book Review: In ‘Lucy Negro, Redux,’ Caroline Randall Williams considers Shakespeare’s Dark Lady

Book Review: In ‘Lucy Negro, Redux,’ Caroline Randall Williams considers Shakespeare’s Dark Lady

By Erica Wright for The Commercial Appeal, 29 August 2015 It is no stretch to say that Caroline Randall Williams is a rising literary star. Her 2012 middle-grade novel, “The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess” (co-authored with her mother, novelist Alice Randall), was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Earlier this year, the mother-daughter team also published […]

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone

By Anya van Wagtendonk for PBS Newshour, 23 April 2015 After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson [sic.] was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard lives on in the era of the smartphone. That’s where the New York […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Film
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