About

The Project

A Living Shakespeare is a public educational resource. It offers companion sonnets alongside Shakespeare's, designed to clarify and illuminate the originals for modern readers in contemporary rhyming verse.

“To live on, the poems must bear progeny: they must find readers who make them part of their own hearts and minds and lives.” — Donald G. Marshall, from his introduction to the print edition of A Living Shakespeare 

Praise for A Living Shakespeare

“A Living Shakespeare invites us to journey with Shakespeare in a parallel sonnet sequence that skillfully weaves together imaginative translations with original riffs on time, beauty, love, death, and poetry itself. It is an energizing demonstration of the power of words in the past to continue to inspire words in the present. A pleasure to read.” — Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University, emeritus 

“A Living Shakespeare is literary intertextuality at its best—a poetic reminder that not only does the past affect the present, but the present, the past. Readers find that before turning each page, they have read Shakespeare’s sonnet and the corresponding ALS sonnet back and forth many times, enjoying the delightful interplay of language and sense between the two poems and discovering both the temporal and the atemporal in the process.” — Mary Ann B. Miller, Caldwell University 

“A Living Shakespeare's collection of sonnets is wonderfully readable as love poetry—but also deeply absorbing as an exhibition of what it can mean to read Shakespeare.” — Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University, emerita

Book

You can order A Living Shakespeare in book form on Lulu (the preferred bookstore of ALS) or Amazon.

Contact

alivingshakespeare [at] gmail [dot] com