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Sebastian Michael
SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived
Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and several other plays and books, looks at each of William Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets in the originally published sequence, giving detailed explanations and looking out for what the words themselves tell us about the great poet and playwright, about the Fair Youth and the Dark Lady, and about their complex and fascinating relationships.
Podcast transcripts, the sonnets, contact details and full info at https://www.sonnetcast.com
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5.0 stars from 11 ratings
“This is a wonderful podcast if you have any interest at all in Shakespeare or the sonnets. Sebastian Michael gets to the heart of each one and talks you through it line by line. It’s so enlightening and more effective than reading commentary from a book, although it’s useful to have the sonnet in...”Read full review »
dogshank1234 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
04/15/24
Very Enjoyable
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“Michael offers interesting insights that I don’t always agree with, but I’m no Shakespeare scholar, so what do I know? Still, he gives me much food for thought as I memorize all sonnets that have really taken hold of me. So far, that’s about 30–and growing.”
Sonneterror via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/24/24
Snackable, insightful and delicious.
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“What a pleasure to have found this podcast! I was given this lithe, unassuming whisper of a book that is the sonnets by William Shakespeare about ten years ago as a gift from my daughter. I, shamefully, have not read it, and, truth be told, cannot find it. As I unsuccessfully searched for it...”Read full review »
IJustKantDoIt via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/09/23
Recent Episodes
With Sonnet 108, William Shakespeare loops back into sentiments expressed intermittently since Sonnet 76, but particularly again recently in Sonnet 105: I have essentially said it all, there is nothing I can do other than repeat and reiterate and rephrase the praises I have sung and continue to...
Published 11/24/24
Published 11/24/24
Of all the poems in the collection first published in 1609, Sonnet 107 most clearly and most compellingly seems to refer to external events that shape Shakespeare's world.
Because of this, it takes up a pivotal position in the canon, since it may therein hold clues to both its date of...
Published 11/17/24
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