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The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare: Part One (1-77) | Full Audiobook with Text

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Shakespeare's (1564–1616) sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. Instead of expressing worshipful love for an almost goddess-like yet unobtainable female love-object, as Petrarch, Dante, and Philip Sidney had done, Shakespeare introduces a young man. He also introduces the Dark Lady, who is no goddess. Shakespeare explores themes such as lust, homoeroticism, misogyny, infidelity, and acrimony in ways that may challenge, but which also open new terrain for the sonnet form. The primary source is a quarto published in 1609 titled Shakespeare's Sonnets. It contains 154 sonnets. Opening Credits - 0:00 Sonnet 1 - 0:17 Sonnet 2 - 1:21 Sonnet 3 - 2:25 Sonnet 4 - 3:26 Sonnet 5 - 4:25 Sonnet 6 - 5:27 Sonnet 7 - 6:29 Sonnet 8 - 7:29

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