24 min listen
Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Aug 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Part 2 focuses closely on the two major “characters” to whom the sonnets are addressed: a beautiful young man, and a woman described as black. You’ll learn how the speaker represents his relationship to these figures and his desire for them, and what significance those relationships might have had in Shakespeare’s culture, as Professor Michael Schoenfeldt discusses sexual identity and race in early modern England.
Sonnets Included in Episode 2
Sonnet 20, “A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted” (Ashley Byam)
Sonnet 147, “My love is as a fever, longing still” (Jeff Cornell)
Sonnets Included in Episode 2
Sonnet 20, “A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted” (Ashley Byam)
Sonnet 147, “My love is as a fever, longing still” (Jeff Cornell)
Released:
Aug 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (84)
As You Like It Part 3: the Language: “All the world’s a stage” by Shakespeare For All