The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
(Films for the humanities & sciences)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004
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Shakespeare's sonnets
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Produced for Goldcrest by Susan Richards, produces for a Court House Films and directed by Kevin Billington, a Court House Films production for Goldcrest
".. are read by Ben Kingsley, Roger Rees, Claire Bloom, and Jane Lapotaire then analyzed by a noted critic or writer (analysts include A.L. Rowse, Leslie Fiedler, Stephen Spender, and Arnold Wesker)"--Container
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Summary: Analyzes 15 sonnets (nos. 8, 18, 25, 35, 53, 64, 65, 66, 87, 91, 94, 107, 127, 128, 144). Explains the sonnets as poems and as a sequence of poems, as well as Shakespeare, his world, and our theories about it. Each sonnet is performed, analyzed, then read again with new insight
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Contents of Works
- disc 1. sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
- sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
- sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
- sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
- sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
- sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- sonnet 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
- sonnet 87: Farewell! thou are too dear for my possessing
- sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- disc 2. sonnet 94: They that have pow'r to hurt and will do none
- sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
- sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st
- sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair