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Sonnet 18
Reading Song by Brian Ferry Another reading by Michael Sheen |
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References
Sonnet 18
Reading
Song by Brian Ferry
Another reading by Michael Sheen
Howard Moss's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" Who says you're like one of the dog days?
You're nicer. And better.
Even in May, the weather can be gray,
And a summer sub-let doesn't last forever.
Sometimes the sun's too hot;
Sometimes it is not.
Who can stay young forever?
People break their necks or just drop dead!
But you? Never!
If there's just one condensed reader left
Who can figure out the abridged alphabet,
After you're dead and gone,In this poem you'll live on!
Sonnet 73
Poem with visualization of the poem
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Courting sonnet from Romeo and Juliet Source
of image from Shakespeare
Illustrated |
Video: the first
sight, the sonnet,
the song
Brief
summary of the play (with stills from its most recent film version);
A more detailed summary quoting the courting sonnet |
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Reading (video)
General
introduction with pictures & film stills A summary of the scenes in Act V, quoting the soliloquy in scene V |
Soliloquy from Macbeth, Act V Scene V Source
of image from Shakespeare
Illustrated |
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The first Globe Theatre was built in 1599, during the Elizabethan age. The center of the circular theater was open to the sky. The stage's roof was painted with stars and supported by two brightly colored pillars. When the silk flag flew over the 30-foot-high walls of the theatre, the townpeople knew to head for the ferries. It was time of a play such as one of William Shakespeare's. Since there were no reserved seats, the crowds arrived long before the opening scenes. They paid their pennies and elbowed their way up to the stage to see the fierce witches of Macbeth or the tragic lovers in Romeo and Juliet. The English theatres of Shakespeare's time did not use curtains. At the end of a scene, the "dead bodies" would just be carried offstage. (The World of Theater New York: Scholastic 1993: pp 16-17..)
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Shakespeare,
16th century the English Renaissance dramatist, actor, and poet, references,
Introduction
to Literature (Spring, 1999)
