😏 Really Shakespeare? 🐥👶
So you feel like a neglected child? If the shoe fits…
Even Patrick Stewart couldn‘t bring himself to read this one #sonnetaday #shakespearereadalong #sonnets
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batsy Ahahaha! I just read this one earlier and thought poor Shakespeare was really down bad. 2y
TheBookHippie I read this as pay attention to MEEEEE. Like he‘s having a fit. 😆 Patrick was wise to leave it be. 2y
GingerAntics First off, how on earth did you find out Sir Patrick wouldn‘t read this one? That is beyond hilarious. Second, I remember “Will” being capitalised in the couplet being important. It‘s Shakes referring to himself (in the third person it would seem). Perhaps after the death of Hamnet, Anne dealt with her grief by focusing on her remaining children or her household concerns, and Will felt a little neglected, causing him to pen this sonnet. 2y
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GingerAntics Can you imagine Anne‘s eye roll when she read this one?! 😂🤣😂 2y
Graywacke @GingerAntics Pelican suggests there were two Wills, and the meaning is then four-fold - will, Will Shakespeare, the other Will she‘s chasing after, or, well, Will‘s thingy…his will. 🙂 2y
Graywacke @MrsMalaprop Oh, I don‘t mind this one so much. He‘s just doing a literary fetal position…but with sexual implications. 🙂 But i do feel his poems chasing after the young man are far more appealing. These sound like clever avoidance to love, the anti-Petrarch, like Ovid‘s Amores, whereas those sounded more about actually liking something. 2y
MrsMalaprop @GingerAntics I have watched Sir Patrick read almost every sonnet in his #sonnetaday where he read them out in order during Covid lockdowns. There were a number that he missed. Sometimes he would comment and say, “Oh, I don‘t like that one so I‘m not reading it.” But with this one he just skipped it without comment! (edited) 2y
GingerAntics @MrsMalaprop WOW!!! 😂🤣😂 that sounds so very like him “I don‘t like this one. I‘m not reading it.” 2y
GingerAntics @Graywacke Will‘s Willy, if you will? 😏 I knew I was missing a turn there. Thanks for reminding me. 🤣😂🤣 2y
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