Understanding Shakespeare's sonnets

In the year of the 400th anniversary of their publication Professors Stanley Wells, CBE, and Jonathan Bate, CBE, talk to Paul Edmondson about the content and context of Shakespeare's collection of sonnets.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• literature
• poetry
• sonnets
• shakespeare

[stardustx85]

Very engaging discussion :-)

[ryan06105]

Pretty sure Shakespeare would give a big facepalm if he could see this.

[katheryncruz24]

Wow nice.

[MrBillfitz]

Who 400yrs. ago could read the sonnets and understand them????

Today not more than 1 in a100 can, yet Shaksphere wrote this stuff in ,for all intents and purposes, what was then the Dark Ages. How could

such a man stay sane in the midsts of such an age? (excuse my spelling)

In grade 12 my teacher could read them with such feeling,Mr. F. Hennebury.

[colinsaep2009]

@animefan1929 I'm here for Skull

[animefan1929]

here for mr.sculls xD

[hellowization1]

who else is here for mr. Scull's homework!

[ShakespeareChannel]

Fascinating discussion. Thanks for posting on youtube.

[bfoaliali]

What a great discussion! And, more than 25 000 views; great stuff.

[154sonnets]

Please feel free to visit my channel 154sonnets. I've begun a project to commit all 154 of the sonnets to the web as short video films.