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Sonnet 154. The final one. Here’s to everyone who has been so kindly watching and listening to these sonnets. We never expected anything like this and we appreciate it enormously.
Shakespeare’s sonnets, 154 in all, demonstrate his mastery of the English language in a way that some of us might appreciate, if not fully understand, and perhaps even want to imitate.
Sir Patrick Stewart has posted the final sonnet in his #ASonnetADay series, which has been going on since the start of the pandemic in March.
Not just Sonnet 18, but all 154 sonnets that Shakespeare is believed to have composed. Actor Phil Kilbourne came up with the idea as the CAE was brainstorming fundraising ideas, and was a little ...
To commemorate Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England announced a call to fine printers worldwide to reproduce all of his sonnets—154 in total.
As she pointed out, the ability to produce a reading of 154 sonnets reflects their original function in Shakespeare’s time. “ ‘Sonnet’ comes from the Italian ‘sonetto,’ meaning ...
To create the signatures, Rougeux took each of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, stripped them of their punctuation, then assigned each letter used a numerical value (a=1, b=2, c=3, and so on).
On its face, a Shakespearean sonnets marathon, during which all of the playwright’s 154 sonnets are performed in a row, would seem like about as much fun as, say, a marathon of the complete ...
The 5th Annual Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Slam--featuring 154 volunteer readers performing all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets in numerical order--will be held April 24 from 1 PM-4 PM at the ...