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…by Margaret Webster, published first by McGraw-Hill in 1952. Pretty much the same point of view that I take is shared by this author. He is to be found in the verse and there lies his genius. I had a read of Stanley Well’s chapter ‘The originality of Shakespeare’s sonnets’ in his book ‘Looking for […] …it’s 2006 and I want to write another book on Sh. Sonnets without looking like a complete and utter pretentious twat. Why, i ask myself, have i spent all these years memorising his 154 Sonnets? What motivated me to continue and what exactly have i discovered? Well I found, or think i’ve found, the obvious. […] …What is the point of memorizing the Sonnets? Why suck the dew from a rose? An element of English eccentricity I guess. I needed to have an intimate knowledge of the sonnets and somewhere to keep them where they wouldn’t get misplaced or lost, since my short-term memory sucks. It took only 6 years to […] According to the concordance on the Shakespeare’s words website there are 76 instances of this phrase in Sh’s canon (including Two Noble Kinsmen). None in the Sonnets. The outline of what will be a new show and thesis is in place. Now comes the fun part of working it into shape. So much for ‘back […] ‘Love everything that breathes.’ G.I. Gurdjieff. This anatomy of love derives from the middle-ages written by a monk. *Love is suffering… One minute he is drowned in tears and lamentations, making the air echo with his sighs, complaints, murmurings, rages and imprecations: otherwhiles to get a glimpse of his goddess you shall see him cross, […] * Shakespeare wrote fast. Ben Jonson wrote ‘His mind and hand went together and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers’. Ben also wrote ‘Ease and relaxation are profitable to all studies. The mind is like a bow, the stronger by being […] If you can do this quiz, good for you, you obviously know your sonnets! If you can’t, don’t worry. Remember you don’t have to be a genius to appreciate one. 1. In the dedication to the sonnets is it: Mr W. H. all happiness or Mr W. Hall’s a penis? 2. When were the Sonnets […] … is legion and my tongue wanders the gamut of our wonderfully manipulative language. By way of explanation, my parents are Edinburgh Scots, I was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, NE In-ger-land and at age 16 we emigrated to Mississauga, Canada. I am living now in Amsterdam, NL. I use Dutch regularly and fluently so the […] … iambics drawn, pentameters and couplets at the ready, set, go! A sonnet is 14 lines of words and punctuation on a page; adding up to approx 140 syllables. And with feminine endings that’s 154. Now there’s a coincidence: exactly the number of sonnets in the series! The argument of a sonnet is developed in […] … is probably the same as everyone else’s: how do you speak it? Do you have to have a deep, resonant voice and plummy vowels? What about all those strange olde words? What is the difference between you and thou? Do you pronounce the -ed at the end of a verb, like buried? What is […] |
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