He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Take a famous example: to read about the Federal Theatre ... “Kill Claudio.” Addicts of the iambic pentameter are starved by “Much Ado.” Scarcely more than a quarter of it is in verse ...

a meter of poetry (or verse) which uses ten syllables that alternate from unstressed and stressed sounds (iambic = unstressed, stressed; pentameter = 5 of each). An example from A Midsummer Night’s ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such ...

Leaving the poetry of iambic pentameter in the past, and packed with original songs and music created by the Grammy-winner Evan Kidd Bogart (Beyonce's "Halo" / Rihanna's "SOS"), this innovative ...

It is whether she can remember her iambic pentameter. For over a decade, Drunk Shakespeare has created alcohol-soaked renditions of the Bard. The gimmick goes like this: One actor begins by ...