Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

In Ear Entertainment Limited

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The 154 sonnets that Shakespeare penned are some of the most famous in the world. But have you ever heard them all? This podcast series will take you through them one by one in easy 15 minute installments. The show’s two hosts, and maybe one or two special guests, will read through the sonnet and talk about what it means to them and what they feel about it.

Recent Episodes

Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
APR 22, 2014
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
The little Love-god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand The fairest votary took up that fire
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46 MIN
Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
APR 15, 2014
Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep. A maid of Dian’s this advantage found, And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep In a cold valley-fountain of that ground, Which borrowed from this holy fire of love A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
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22 MIN
Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
APR 10, 2014
Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn, But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing, In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn, In vowing new hate after new love bearing. But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee, When I break twenty?
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23 MIN
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
APR 8, 2014
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove. For, thou betraying me, I do betray
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20 MIN
Sonnet 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
APR 3, 2014
Sonnet 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
O, from what power hast thou this powerful might With insufficiency my heart to sway, To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
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20 MIN