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    STUDENT PRODUCTION 25 NOVEMBER 2020

    Shakespeare’s sonnets
    Everything you need to know about them

    Whom did
    Shakespeare
    write his
    sonnets for?

    Shakespeare’s
    sonnets were
    Why did Shakespeare start writing sonnets? dedicated to
    The famous poet wrote his sonnets to discover all aspects of love. At the
    H.B., an
    time, a sonnet was an expression of love. If you fell in love with someone, unknown
    then writing a sonnet for them was a casual way to let them know. But identity. One of
    Shakespeare didn’t just write his sonnets for a loved one, he wrote them to
    capture the essence of love in all its possible forms. his sonnets
    though (Sonnet
    18) was
    How did Shakespeare write his sonnets?
    addressed to
    Sonnets are songlike poems of 14 lines that follow a strict rhyming pattern. an anonymous
    Shakespeare used a pattern called Unrhymed iambic pentameter, which
    you probably know as ‘the blank verse’ or ‘the heartbeat rhythm’. Unrhymed young man
    iambic pentameter consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a known as ‘the
    stressed one. For instance; “Tis but thy name that is my enemy.” Fair Youth’

    1 2 3
    SONNET UNRHYMED IAMBIC ESSENCE
    PENTAMETER
    a poem of fourteen lines the nature or quality of
    a type of meter that is used in
    that uses various types of something
    poems, sonnets,etc.
    metrical patterns.

    1
    STUDENT PRODUCTION 26 NOVEMBER 2020

    Where did Shakespeare


    get his inspiration?
    Sonnets were invented during the 13th
    Century, refined by the Italian poet Petrarch.
    Shakespeare would never have been able to
    write his sonnets without him. He also liked
    Chaucer’s works, as he used some of
    Chaucer's poems as the bace of his plays.

    Fun Facts about


    Shakespeare and his
    sonnets: Petrarch Painting

    • Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet poems were printed without his


    is Sonnet 18. permission.

    • He wrote 154 sonnets.

    • Shakespeare’s Globe theater


    unintentionally burnt down after
    a cannon shot.

    • He was only 18 when he got


    married to Anne Hathaway, who
    was 26 years old at that time.

    • 43.4% lines in ”A Midsummer


    Night’s Dream” rhyme.

    • The name William Shakespeare


    can be made into the phrase “I
    am a weakish speller”.

    • Shakespeare was the victim of


    plagiarism. In 1599, two of his

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