The grave of William Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church inscribed with the words "Good friend for Jisus sake forbeare,"To ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’ergreen my bad, my good allow? You are my all the ...

Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces. But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece', were published and he dedicated them to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton.