Shakespeare's sonnet 130 is sometimes read as an anti-blazon, and therefore as a misogynist text. Drawing on a large number of Renaissance poems, I show that this is a misreading of the sonnet which, ...

This is one of the most commonly known, but among the most misunderstood and most misinterpreted of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Commensurate with the common misinterpretation is what is equally always ...

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 was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...