HeyJaredThe Classic Theatre
Hi - my name is Sanio Kurtesvic and I'm an NYC based actor. This is a podcast where I read works written by various authors, to keep my art fresh and alive. Thanks for listening!To connect or collaborate, check me out at: https://www.sanio-actor.info
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Sonnet 44 (Shakespeare) (opens the original)
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#44 Synopsis: In this sonnet, which links with s. 45 to form, in effect, a two-part poem, the poet wishes that he were thought rather than flesh so that he could be with the beloved. The poet, being mortal, is instead made up of the four elements—earth, air, fire, and water. The dullest of these elements, earth and water, are dominant in him and force him to remain fixed in place, weeping “heavy tears.” If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way, Fo
Sonnet 43 (Shakespeare) (opens the original)
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#43 Synopsis: The poet, separated from the beloved, reflects on the paradox that because he dreams of the beloved, he sees better with his eyes closed in sleep than he does with them open in daylight. His desire, though, is to see not the dream image but the actual person. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee And, darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. Then thou whose shadow shadows doth mak
Sonnet 42 (Shakespeare) (opens the original)
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#42 Synopsis: The poet attempts to excuse the two lovers. He first argues that they love each other only because of him; he then argues that since he and the young man are one, in loving the young man, the woman actually loves the poet. The poet acknowledges, though, that all of this is mere “flattery” or self-delusion. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; That she hath thee is of my wailing chief, A loss in love that touches me more nearly. Lovi
Sonnet 41 (Shakespeare) (opens the original)
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#41 Synopsis: The poet again tries to forgive the young man, now on the grounds that the young man could hardly have been expected to refuse the woman’s seduction. The attempt to forgive fails because the young man has caused a twofold betrayal: his beauty having first seduced the woman, both he and she have then been faithless to the poet. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows wh
Sonnet 40 (Shakespeare) (opens the original)
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#40 Synopsis: This first of three linked sonnets accuses the young man of having stolen the poet’s “love.” The poet struggles to justify and forgive the young man’s betrayal, but can go no farther than the concluding “we must not be foes.” (While the word love is elaborately ambiguous in this sonnet, the following two sonnets make it clear that the theft is of the poet’s mistress.) Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all. What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love,
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