By your powers combined (aka the multiple emails we received requesting this topic), we bring you a 101 episode on Shakespeare’s Sonnets! In our Taste of Text feature, we read you our favorites (57 and 130) and snippets of a few others; Jess gives us a rundown on the difference between Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet style; Aubrey pleads with teacher not to use the sonnets as acting exercises; we summarize the final play in our Keeping Up With the Queen’s Men series; we play another round of the Lost Plays Game; we gossip a little and laugh a lot. Get out there and explore the sonnets!
Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:
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Jess anti-recommends Tiny Pretty Things on Netflix. It’s so bad it’s good…maybe?
Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:
Check out Brandon Carter’s collection of “sonnet movies” on his instagram: @mistercart3r
A recent dust up and course correction over at The Sundial
Registration for the all-virtual 2021 SAA Conference is now open!
