William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Most of you have chosen a sonnet
to recitefor our Poetry Out Loud
Project.
Elsa, Joes, Pippa and Yoni still need
to pick one. Hand in a print with the
number of the sonnet before Friday
please.
The numbers that are already taken
are: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 36, 38,
39, 45, 47, 56, 59, 62, 69, 74
Visit the website poetryoutloud.org
and watch a video to see what our
goal is.
Filming: Wednesday 5 and 12
March. For those two lessons there
is no other homework than to come
prepared for recital.
the cover of the first ever edition, date 1609
Spelling in those days
Do you see anything
remarkable on the
cover?
19 June 1609
Edward Alleyn (one of the
greatest actors in those
days) noted his purchase of
the recently-published
Shake-speares Sonnets
by writing down ‘Shaksper
sonetts.’
Let’s look at some more
funky spellings