Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Use of Personification - Professor Belinda Jack
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Published 2017-02-02
This lecture will explore the magic of personification in Shakespeare's poetry.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/shakespeares…
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All Comments (12)
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she speaks clearer than the other prof
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I feel really privilleged to have access to this. Thank you to everyone involved.
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This is a fantastic lecture actually. I want all the books she is referencing!
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Inexhaustible wealth of meaning comprised in fourteen lines. A most stimulating lecture.
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Thank you for this upload:)
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Great lecture!
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Thank you ✨
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Professor, my dearest salutations. About such a theme so trespassed by "ambiguity" on prosopopeia. I very much liked 60-63-73. Thank you
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The Sonnets are of Edward de Vere's love of his son Henry Wriothesley whose mother was Elizabeth I, urging his son to produce an heir hence the urgence of time passing.
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She's low energy but hang in there; but I prefer, say, Paul Cantor.
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No. The first 126 are not addressed to a young man. This is very often stated, but if you actually read them, this is completely untrue.
