While working on the Skills for Shakespeare articles looking at iambic pentameter and blank verse, I used two lines from Sonnet 18 for an example.
Sonnet 18’s first line is the title of this post and it includes reference to ‘the darling buds of May’. I became so distracted by all the wonderful online versions available, including as part of film and television, that the first article was in danger of being completely derailed.
So: the 1st article to do with speaking iambic pentameter can be found here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Skills-for-Shakespeare-Speaking-in-Verse
and another article, which is about Sonnet 18 and has lots of lovely multi-media links for you to dip in and out of, can be found here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Shakespeares-Sonnets-Online-Sonnet-18-Shall-I-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
Enjoy!
“I became so distracted by all the wonderful online versions available, including as part of film and television, that the first article was in danger of being completely derailed.”
I know the feeling. In editing a plot overview of “Hamlet,” I kept getting distracted by the film footage. I remember editing around Hamlet’s conversation with The Ghost, then suddenly realizing that I left it on “play” and was at that point watching The Murder of Gonzago.
LOL – so easily done when working with such fascinating material.
Thank you for visiting and commenting, Antigonus! I have bookmarked ‘pursued by a bear’ and will be pursuing, bearlike, as soon as time permits.
Grand work there from Antigonus – you can check it out from the Resources page above: see Hamlet, starring David Tennant!