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Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

Update: 2024-08-25

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In this special episode, Abigail Rokison-Woodall, Deputy Director (Education) and Associate Professor in Shakespeare and Theatre at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, talks to Sebastian Michael about the challenges – and joys – of speaking verse in general and Shakespearean verse in particular: how do we do his language justice in a contemporary performance setting and how do we deal with the ways in which the English Renaissance approach to language differs from ours; with a focus also, of course, on the significance this has for reading and reciting the Sonnets.

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Sonnet 108: What's in the Brain That Ink May Character

Sonnet 108: What's in the Brain That Ink May Character

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Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul

Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul

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Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time

Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time

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Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry

Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry

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Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old

Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old

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Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth

Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth

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Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened Though More Weak in Seeming

Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthened Though More Weak in Seeming

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Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

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Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forgetst So Long

Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forgetst So Long

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Special Guest: Professor David Crystal – Original Pronunciation (OP)

Special Guest: Professor David Crystal – Original Pronunciation (OP)

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Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide

Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide

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Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring

Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring

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Sonnet 97: How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been

Sonnet 97: How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been

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Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

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Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness

Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness

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Sonnet 95: How Sweet and Lovely Dost Thou Make the Shame

Sonnet 95: How Sweet and Lovely Dost Thou Make the Shame

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Sonnet 94: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None

Sonnet 94: They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None

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Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True

Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True

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Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst to Steal Thyself Away

Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst to Steal Thyself Away

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Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

Sonnet 91: Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill

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Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

Special Guest: Professor Abigail Rokison-Woodall – Speaking Shakespeare

Sebastian Michael