Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. A Sotheby's employee handles a copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the most important book in ... [+] English Literature. The book is estimated ...

April 23 is celebrated every year as World Book Day, honouring both the playwright William Shakespeare ... Here are nine quotes from Shakespeare’s plays to motivate you as you begin your journey.

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.