5/20/2009

Shakespeare's Sonnets Turn 400

Title page from the 1609 edition of SHAKE-SPEA...

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Check out the 'Sonnets' link- open source Shakespeare.


400 years ago today, Thomas Thorpe entered into the Stationers' Register a book titled "Shake-Speares Sonnets". However, Clinton Heylin argues that - like Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes - the Sonnets were never intended for a wide audience. "In both cases, they were killing time and at the same time dealing with huge personal issues in a private way, which they never conceived of coming out publicly."



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