Your passion for The Sonnets is contagious. Your video is witty and artistic. You rock!

really enjoyed this ... lovely ....thank you ...sharing with my students ...💌

Oh my god, I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel!! Such a refreshing mix of hijinks and enlightening analysis. And as a first-time reader of the sonnets it is validating to know that it's not just me who was kinda taken aback and bamboozled by the weird baby-making pleas at first. Thanks for reframing it in a way that makes me appreciate the beauty and giving me interesting thoughts to think about while reading them instead of just "??????????????"

So loving this series !

Genius!!! Please continue your wonderful work

ooo can't believe I never found this amazing series before!! Best video on The Sonnet I have ever seen

QUALITY work, my friend. 👏🏻

Loved it! Entertaining and informative.

These are fantastic!!

man, you are amazing! thank you for this

another great video. glad i watched.

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton is alluded to in Sonnets 3, 33, 36 and 81 as being "the fair youth." The author(s) of Hamlet, a work that was rewritten many times, include Thomas Kyd. Kyd is best known for The Spanish Tragedie and was outed by Thomas Heywood as, like himself, an author whose work was printed under the name "Shakespeare" or "Shake-speare". Heywood's work appears under the pseudonym in 1599's "Passionate Pilgrim". For a better understanding of Shakespeare I have found that it helps to read works published under other names, including prior versions of the Shakespeare plays and to learn more about the politics of the era. Henslowe records receipts for the play "Hamlet in 1594: "9 of June 1594, received from Hamlet 8 shillings" (about $151) -- too early for traditional timelines but there it is in writing in a primary source.

@Jeffhowardmeade

5 ай бұрын

So Henslowe made a few bucks on Kyd’s Hamlet. Wutcherpoint?

These are so great, Sam. :)

saying: Shakespeare writing to a handsome young man... while: showing the picture of Christopher Marlowe

You wouldn’t mind to mention your twitter account? Your videos about the 154 are fabulous, instructive in such a fresh way!

Earl of Pembroke not Duke

@TheUnweededGarden

Жыл бұрын

Ack! You’re right!! I stand corrected! (your username checks out)

Let’s get married 🥺

Shall I compare those buns to an iced eclair

Fix "decease" to "decrease"! (These videos are too well done to have an error.)

@finitudeimperial8930

2 жыл бұрын

The actual poem reads as “decease” not “decrease”