Videos
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Two brief (connected) snippets from a 2005 BBC television series, Shakespeare Re-Told, which, as the title implies, puts several Shakespeare plays in contemporary settings. The Much Ado About Nothing episode features some Shakespeare-on-Shakespeare action, in which two of the characters do a detailed reading of the poem.
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Sonnet 116, soulfully quoted by the lovely Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Audios
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Downloadable files, courtesy of Sonnet Central.
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LibriVox is attempting to make all public domain (non-copyright) books into free audiobooks, available online – here’s their collection of Shakespeare sonnets.
Images
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Historical Documents
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Literary giant Harold Bloom answers questions on literary colossus William Shakespeare in this 1998 online interview.
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An interesting New York Times article from 1875 that deals with the relationship between Henry Wriothesley and William Shakespeare, which the latter jokingly referred to as a "marriage"…
Books
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A facsimile of the original 1609 printing of the Sonnets – very cool.
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A 2004 edition of the sonnets (one of many, many, many texts out there…).
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The Colossus books, a 1960s sci-fi trilogy by English author Dennis Feltham Jones, uses Sonnet 116 as a definition for love…according to a giant, world-dominating robot. Yep, it’s for real.
Movies & TV
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We haven’t seen this TV movie, but the IMDB posting has us intrigued – what will those clever people at the BBC come up with next?
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One of our favorites – OK, the sonnets only get a brief shout-out in this comic masterpiece, but it’s worth watching for any fan of Shakespeare…or theater…or, let’s face it, humor.
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Here’s the DL on the 1995 Ang Lee film excerpted above (see "Videos").
Websites
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A cool, ongoing "online conference" for Shakespeare scholars of all kinds.
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The charmingly named, very comprehensive website, "Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet." Yes, it sounds like a children’s book, but it’s actually quite useful.
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Wow, some people really love sonnets…
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Another Shakespeare website, onlineshakespeare.com, offers its take on the sonnets.