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  • Match-Algernon Charles Swinburne

    Match-Algernon Charles Swinburne
    Sep 9 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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    45 mins
  • Poems and Songs-Henry Kendall

    Poems and Songs-Henry Kendall
    Sep 8 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    2 hrs and 30 mins
  • Richard III-William Shakespeare

    Richard III-William Shakespeare
    Sep 7 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    3 hrs and 29 mins
  • Truth-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Truth-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Sep 6 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    37 mins
  • Romeo and Juliet (version 3)-William Shakespeare

    Romeo and Juliet (version 3)-William Shakespeare
    Sep 5 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    3 hrs and 15 mins
  • Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone Near a Deserted Quarry at Rydal-William Wordsworth

    Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone Near a Deserted Quarry at Rydal-William Wordsworth
    Sep 4 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    37 mins
  • From Queen's Gardens-Christina Rossetti

    From Queen's Gardens-Christina Rossetti
    Sep 3 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    57 mins
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)-William Shakespeare

    Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 4)-William Shakespeare
    Sep 2 2026
    Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
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    2 hrs and 29 mins