Memorizing Shakespeare’s Sonnets
William Sutton has memorized all of Shakespeare’s sonnets so you don’t have to, and created ILoveShakespeare.com (above), an online collection and examination of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets organized by themes of Love, Death, Nature, Pain, and Time. Will is an actor, educator, and alumnus of The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, and reveals the possibly real reason Shakespeare wrote exactly 154 sonnets; how he mastered Elizabethan English by learning and speaking the sonnets; how you too can join the pantheon of actors who’ve come before us; how Shakespeare’s words are only the beginning; that time he was invited to recite a sonnet at Shakespeare’s gravesite; how he was able to pluck from memory Sonnet 138; and the way in which a self-described ‘bear of very little brain’ has come to understand not only Shakespeare’s sonnets, but his plays. (Length 22:19)
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