Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Part One (1-77) | Full Audiobook with Text

Shakespeare’s (1564–1616) sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. Instead of expressing worshipful love for an almost goddess-like yet unobtainable female love-object, as Petrarch, Dante, and Philip Sidney had done, Shakespeare introduces a young man. He also introduces the Dark Lady, who is no goddess. Shakespeare explores themes such as lust, homoeroticism, misogyny, infidelity, and acrimony in ways that may challenge, but which also open new terrain for the sonnet form. The primary source is a quarto published in 1609 titled Shakespeare’s Sonnets. It contains 154 sonnets. Opening Credits - 0:00 Sonnet 1 - 0:17 Sonnet 2 - 1:21 Sonnet 3 - 2:25 Sonnet 4 - 3:26 Sonnet 5 - 4:25 Sonnet 6 - 5:27 Sonnet 7 - 6:29 Sonnet 8 - 7:29 Sonnet 9 - 8:37 Sonnet 10 - 9:38 Sonnet 11 - 10:42 Sonnet 12 - 11:50 Sonnet 13 - 12:52 Sonnet 14 - 13:52 Sonnet 15 - 14:54 Sonnet 16 - 15:57 Sonnet 17 - 16:57 Sonnet 18 - 18:02 Sonnet 19 - 19:07 Sonnet 20 - 20:12 Sonnet 21 - 21:19 Sonnet 22 - 22:22 Sonnet 23 - 23:26 Sonnet 24 - 24:26 Sonnet 25 - 25:29 Sonnet 26 - 26:30 Sonnet 27 - 27:32 Sonnet 28 - 28:35 Sonnet 29 - 29:39 Sonnet 30 - 30:49 Sonnet 31 - 31:55 Sonnet 32 - 32:59 Sonnet 33 - 34:03 Sonnet 34 - 35:06 Sonnet 35 - 36:09 Sonnet 36 - 37:13 Sonnet 37 - 38:17 Sonnet 38 - 39:21 Sonnet 39 - 40:24 Sonnet 40 - 41:26 Sonnet 41 - 42:33 Sonnet 42 - 43:36 Sonnet 43 - 44:40 Sonnet 44 - 45:46 Sonnet 45 - 46:47 Sonnet 46 - 47:50 Sonnet 47 - 48:51 Sonnet 48 - 49:53 Sonnet 49 - 50:55 Sonnet 50 - 51:56 Sonnet 51 - 52:55 Sonnet 52 - 54:01 Sonnet 53 - 55:01 Sonnet 54 - 56:03 Sonnet 55 - 57:07 Sonnet 56 - 58:10 Sonnet 57 - 59:14 Sonnet 58 - 1:00:16 Sonnet 59 - 1:01:16 Sonnet 60 - 1:02:13 Sonnet 61 - 1:03:15 Sonnet 62 - 1:04:19 Sonnet 63 - 1:05:22 Sonnet 64 - 1:06:23 Sonnet 65 - 1:07:23 Sonnet 66 - 1:08:29 Sonnet 67 - 1:09:30 Sonnet 68 - 1:10:33 Sonnet 69 - 1:11:33 Sonnet 70 - 1:12:40 Sonnet 71 - 1:13:43 Sonnet 72 - 1:14:43 Sonnet 73 - 1:15:43 Sonnet 74 - 1:16:45 Sonnet 75 - 1:17:48 Sonnet 76 - 1:18:48 Sonnet 77 - 1:19:50 End Credits - 1:20:53 Read by Elliot Fitzpatrick. *Links to my recording equipment* Microphone: Interface: XLR cables: Microphone arm: iPad stylus: Booth monitor: Recording booth: Like and subscribe for more free classic audiobooks: #audiobooks #williamshakespeare #poetry #sleep #classics #asmr #shakespeare #sonnets