- Shakespeare's Sonnets have been put to music for the first time to celebrate the cultural Olympiad of 2012. The album will be released on St. Georges Day, April 23rd, which is also the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday. (Daily Telegraph)
- After a busy life of 38 plays and 154 sonnets, the Bard has made an indelible mark on our minds and hearts. (Huffington Post)
- Where: Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 W. Washington St. Tickets: $25-$37, www.irtlive.org, (317) 635-5252. Shakespeares sonnets have long teased readers with hints that the most celebrated poet-playwright in the English language reveals himself in them. (Indianapolis Star)
- One year a young lady won by saying she'd come in hot and tired from a bicycle ride, seized the nearest book to hand—a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets—and sat down to read her favorites. (DAILY KOS)
- The only way a work of fiction, like one of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, can possess this sort of lasting power is if it contains multiple levels of meaning and insight. (Daily Collegian)
- The night before our lunch he was performing at the Barbican, a musical interpretation of five Shakespeare sonnets sung with an 80-piece orchestra. In 2009 he staged an opera, Prima Donna, and is now working on another. (The Guardian)
- After Tempest performed four poems, members of Yales Teeth Slam Poets took over the stage with their interpretations of various plays and sonnets. (Yale Daily News)
- Come July, if we dont get stanza after stanza of Kipling, a triumph of Shakespeare sonnets and maybe even a burst of Burns when Chris Hoy wins, then Ill eat my collected works of William McGonagall. (The Independent)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Shakespeare sonnets
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