Share-a-Sonnet allows you to send a sonnet to friends by email, Twitter or Facebook.Forty interviews with scholars and experts discussing the meaning of The Sonnets and their author.High resolution facsimile of the original 1609 Quarto showing Shakespeare’s Sonnets as originally published.Facility to add your own notes on any sonnet.
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The complete Arden edition text of The Sonnets plus A Lover’s Complaint.Beautiful filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by an incredible cast of Shakespearian actors and experts.An alternative commentary on every sonnet comes from poet and musician Don Paterson, whose humorous and accessible style complements the academic rigour of the Arden Notes. Touch a mysterious line or difficult word in any of the poems and the corresponding Arden Note highlights to provide comprehensive explanation. Also included are the complete Notes and Introduction from the Arden Shakespeare, offering unsurpassed scholarly commentary and insight. The performance videos, running over two and a half hours, are just the beginning. These performances – all specially filmed for the app – are synchronised to the text, which highlights line by line as each sonnet is spoken. The Sonnets presents William Shakespeare’s immortal collection of love poems in an interactive digital edition that allows you to explore, appreciate and understand this great work of literature as never before.Īll 154 sonnets are performed to camera by a star-studded cast including Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek, X-Men, Royal Shakespeare Company), David Tennant (Dr Who, Hamlet), Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Fiona Shaw (The Waste Land, Harry Potter), Stephen Fry (The Hobbit) and Dominic West (The Wire).
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