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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIgiH-E8yg&t=239s

Many of us first encountered Shakespeareβ€˜s plays as text before experiencing them as theater. Shakespeare is textual. Heβ€˜s also typographic. In this free public lecture, Claire Bourne illuminates how typographic decision-makingβ€”from typefaces to page designβ€”has shaped how we read and engage with Shakespeare.

COVID has me still weak and reading is eh so …Shakespeare

#shakespearereadalong peeps

I kind a feel like I completed a marathon. I made it! Following our map laid by @GingerAntics of 22 a week, my mornings for 7 weeks have been working through these 154 sonnets. They‘re difficult, but as you work through them they open themselves up with so much language play.

I like this Pelican edition, the one in front. The notes were curt, but smart and insightful. It doesn‘t have any real analysis.

Loved our little #shakespearerealong team

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#Royal

Sonnet 116 - on the constancy and permanence of love - an ever-fixèd mark - never shaken. This sonnet comes amongst a sudden change in trend. A once jealous author has put himself on the defensive. So, take it at its meaning and as it‘s undermined.

Pictured over Michael Stipe, because it has me thinking of how he discarded the permanence of love in REM‘s This One Goes Out to the One I Love.

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I‘m a Covid rebound case. Back in isolation. Day 13.

I really took to Sonnet 104, which I thought was beautiful, but quieter, with a gentle kindness. (Although choosing a mere 3 yrs as his time element may be satirical.)

This one stands out as gentler than anything before. So when the next Sonnet, 105 says β€œSince all alike my songs and praises be/To one, of one, still such, and ever so”, I imagine he‘s being intentionally provocative.

Sonnet 102 - one in a sequence on the struggle to capture his lover‘s beauty.

Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer‘s front doth sing,
And stops his pipe in growth of riper days:

In Ovid‘s metamorphoses Philomel was raped by her sister‘s husband, who cut out her tongue so she couldn‘t tell anyone. Later she was turned into a nightingale (hence the picture).

Sonnet 93 explores what we do and donβ€˜t reveal with our face, thinking (of course) about infidelity.

β€œHow like Eveβ€˜s apple doth thy beauty grow”

My cat wasnβ€˜t Litsy-friendly (a poor litten) if you want to read the text, but you can find the full text here: https://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/93

#shakespeareresdalong

Sonnet 85 and the silent muse.
Image too cheesy? 😁

I found Sonnet 86, where WS says he was not silenced by great poetry, but by β€œyou” alone, powerfully written. But I‘m partial to the silent struggle expressed here - while β€œprecious phrase by all the muses filed”…i‘m left with β€œmy dumb thoughts, speaking in effect”

unlettered clerk: β€œthe illiterate parish clerk (whose duty is to lead the congregation‘s responses, and cries Amen to everything)”

Sonnet 81

@batsy has me thinking about WS‘s petulance. ☺️ Here our jealous poet overlays this with thoughts on his legacy, the distant future, β€œWhen all breathers of this world are dead.” He‘s so focused on death, he has to remind us readers of our own, making us all think sadly of generations long ahead that have forgotten us…but not WS and his muse: β€œAnd tongues to be your being shall rehearse…You still shall live”
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Sonnet 74

When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part that was consecrate to thee

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Sonnets 71-73 look at death in tortured ways (a passive aggressive you should forget me). Here, in Sonnet 73, it‘s compared to autumn and winter.

β€œBare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang” can lead us to imagine a beautiful image of a leave-less late fall tree, or a romantic one of the many ruined Catholic choirs in the abandoned churches of WS‘s time, or, as here, the ugly medical army against our covid pandemic. (Paxlovid, etc).

The first four lines of Sonnet 60 are familiar and beautiful to me, their expression of time and experience as a sequence of ripples on on the shore. I‘m always caught on the line β€œin sequent toil all forwards do contend”, as a metaphor for life. Also, later in the poem I love the bitter line: β€œAnd time that gave doth now his gift confound”

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Sonnet 54, with some wild flowers from today.

Sketch synopsis: Your faithfulness makes you like a scented rose and, when your beauty fades, my poetry, like perfume, distills your true essence.

Canker-blooms are scentless, wild, dog roses. Wildflowers seemed like a decent replacement. They seemed to β€œplay as wantonly when summer‘s breath their masked buds discloses”

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For the morning, Sonnet 50, on Breckenridge mountain. I was going to read this on my hike yesterday, but I was too exhausted to read a sonnet. Saw the word journey, snapped the picture. So only this morning do I grasp he‘s traveling away from his lover by horse. Since I came here from overheated topography-compromised Houston, I can‘t say this resembles in any way how I felt. ☺️
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…that pour‘st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument

Good morning, from sonnet 38
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Sonnet 33 for the morning, the first of four comparing the trials of love to the changing weather.

Here the love is like the sun, β€œGilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy”, turning pale streams gold - β€œbut one hour mine”.

(β€œthe ugly rack on his celestial face” is cloud cover blocking the sun)

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Sonnet 31 for the morning, a mourning of deceased lovers or dead love. (Curious if he means he‘s lacking a heart.) But β€œlovers” can mean many things, and religious love can mean faithful or perhaps (?) something more like fraternal or even family love. I thought of Hamnet, the bard‘s deceased son, and wondering if he had this lost son in mind. #shakespearereadalong

#shakespearereadalong #catherbuddyread - A Song of the Lark reference, Sonnet 29

Imagining Cather‘s opera singer, feeling outcast, dusting off the Colorado sand hills, yet in a state, while singing, richer than kings.

From fairest creatures we desire increase

#firstlinefridays

And another book to start July.

I‘ll try reading two editions. This by Pelican and one other that‘s still on order. I bought this one at Joseph Fox independent bookstore in Philadelphia. It closed earlier this year. πŸ™

#Shakespearereadalong

#OnThisDay in 1616 William Shakespeare died. We also celebrate his bday today, the exact date is unknown. "If you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I was dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot...For goodness' sake! What the dickens! But me no buts! - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare." #HistoryGetsLIT

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#Passage

With show season starting up again we decided to make a showpiece book... this baby weighs 9 pounds and includes everything Shakespeare ever published. That's a standard dinner fork for size comparison. I'm not sure yet if it'll be a standard item we continue to make, or if it'll be a one of. It used SO MUCH LEATHER. πŸ˜… I'm really happy with how the cover turned out.

#Studio42Books #Penguicon #MCCC

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#Oath

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#None

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#Mercy

Christmas present from my husband. Done βœ…πŸ˜Šβ€οΈ.

Post 2 of 2: Here are all my awesome goodies! @quietjenn really picked out some fun stuff!! Cute Halloween socks, a fun mask, an awesome mug (it says Boo! on the inside), a smell-good candle and this really cool/spooky tote! Not pictured is also some candy my daughter is rummaging through πŸ˜‚ Thank you so much Jenn! You did amazing!! Thank you @wanderinglynn for hosting this #HHS !

#FallTreasures #Day16 #ThriftStoreFind

I have A LOT of books picked up very cheaply from the thrift store. My favorite place to thrift for books is called Bishop‘s Attic, and most of the books are only $.10 each. I‘ve seen copies of other volumes of this collection at my local used bookstore for upwards of $10 each, so I was lucky to find these at such a good price while thrifting!

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#Hue

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#Growl

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Prompt: Exceed

1. Shakespeare! I like to hear the different voices on audio, but I have to read along to keep track of who is talking and where the action is taking place. I recommend #ArkAngelShakspeare audio productions.

2. I struggle to read much nonfiction in print, but I thoroughly enjoy it on audio. I also appreciate how many more books I can enjoy by listening while I drive, walk, and do chores.

#Two4Tuesday

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#Change

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#Brave

#TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #book #books #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #bookshelfies #shelfie #shelfies #bookstack #bookstacks #stack #stacks #bookstore #bookshop #bookshopper #bookshopping #booksale #bookdesign #bookdesigner #bookdeal #bookdeals #bookdealer #bookdealers #bookfeature #bookfeatures #bookfair #bookfan #bookfandom #bookfever #bookfanatic #bookfrenzy #Classics #Poetry #Fiction #Plays #Drama πŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’›

I love reading Shakespeare, but I had to share.

Maybe the only thing 2020 has done right is making a man named William Shakespeare one of the worldβ€˜s first COVID vaccine recipients. The BBC had fun with this news: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55233021?fbclid=IwAR1RHUJrM-0AfA4kNBqaAELpPHLqNKT0P0...

Queen Greatest Hits Vol I
Tagged
The Greatest Showman

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#Desire

Sonnet 45 by William Shakespeare

#ForeverNovember @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Foliage

I had this grand scheme where I was going to read and then watch all of Shakespeare's plays, but, as it turns out, I really couldn't give a fuck about the Bard. DNF at page 388.

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#Forbidden

@Gezemice the only Arden Shakespeare I have is the complete works and those usually don‘t have any of the extra stuff which is why I‘ve stayed away from the RSC complete works. Then I have these Arden Performance editions. If I ever get to restart my physical library, those may have to be on the list.

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#Fire

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#Wealth

More helping my dad clean out his parents‘ house, and we found this in a tub of knickknacks from when the whole family lived abroad in France for several years! ❀️