Part 3 starts with a discussion of general reading strategies to help you discover the poetic techniques and insights of any individual sonnet. It concludes with a close-reading of three sonnets from Professor Michael Schoenfeldt that show the extraordinary range of tone, emotion, and perspective in Shakespeare’s poems.
Speeches and performers:
Sonnet 29, “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” (Ashley Byam)
Sonnet 18, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (Jeff Cornell)
Sonnet 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (Amanda Harris)
Sonnet 129, “Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame” (Amanda Harris)