William Shakespeare

1564 - 1616

Shakespeare’s SonnetsMost 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, 74Visit 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