Shakespeare's Sonnets
Apr. 28th, 2006 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrInspired by my new CD When Love Speaks, which I have been playing on endless repeat ever since I got it, I have been reading Shakespeare's Sonnets on this website. I have taught Shakespeare at the college level. I have read many of the sonnets before, and memorized some of them, and I am probably much more familiar than most Americans with the plays; I was in a Shakespeare reading group that met every other week for years to read his plays aloud.
But although I have studied the sonnet form and I knew about the Youth and the Dark Lady, I have never sat down and read all the sonnets one after another in sequence before. I'm up through Sonnet 60 or so. I am finding it fascinating (and I like the commentary on this site). I did not realize that such a large proportion of the sonnets were about the youth, rather than the lady. I knew that many of them were bawdy, but did not realize how many of them were specifically homosexually bawdy. And I had not realized quite clearly that they are not discrete poems, but interlocking, some following in story sequence one after the other, telling a larger tale of several relationships, with careful attention to numerology. I am learning a lot. And I am ashamed of how little I knew about this.
Huh. It's never too late to learn.
In other reading notes: also reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scott_lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora, which is sucking me right in. And am listening to Jim Dale read the Harry Potter books as I work on Quicken to enter my financial accounts, stopping to take notes on any passages having to do with memory, in preparation for the paper I am to write for Lumos.
But although I have studied the sonnet form and I knew about the Youth and the Dark Lady, I have never sat down and read all the sonnets one after another in sequence before. I'm up through Sonnet 60 or so. I am finding it fascinating (and I like the commentary on this site). I did not realize that such a large proportion of the sonnets were about the youth, rather than the lady. I knew that many of them were bawdy, but did not realize how many of them were specifically homosexually bawdy. And I had not realized quite clearly that they are not discrete poems, but interlocking, some following in story sequence one after the other, telling a larger tale of several relationships, with careful attention to numerology. I am learning a lot. And I am ashamed of how little I knew about this.
Huh. It's never too late to learn.
In other reading notes: also reading
scott_lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora, which is sucking me right in. And am listening to Jim Dale read the Harry Potter books as I work on Quicken to enter my financial accounts, stopping to take notes on any passages having to do with memory, in preparation for the paper I am to write for Lumos.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Woo! Shakespeare Slash!
Date: 2006-04-29 03:35 am (UTC)You can always find something new in his work and that is why he endures for all time and almost all places.
Lumos is the conference, isn't it?
Woo! The homosexual bawdiness! You could get so much fan fiction out of the sonnets. I wonder if anyone can recommend me.
PS Well done for your stance about Union 93 and the posters and PTSD and Daniel Goleman in general.
Adelaide
who signed up because of Space Camp
Re: Woo! Shakespeare Slash!
Date: 2006-04-29 03:46 am (UTC)Re: Woo! Shakespeare Slash!
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