Shakespeare’s Sonnets 141 – 154
Sonnets 141 – 154 Sonnet 141 Summary: the poet informs the Dark Lady it is not her physical beauty nor for any other charms –voice, touch, taste, smell – that engage his love. Rather it is because of “one foolish heart” that he loves her, though she treats him as a “slave and vassal wretch”, […]
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613-14)
Introduction “The Two Noble Kinsmen” was Shakespeare’s last play, co-written with John Fletcher around three years before his death in 1616. It takes its plot from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale”, written around two centuries earlier. It’s thought that an earlier version of the story, author unknown, may have influenced Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” […]