Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation where old comics are classed a history books, and I use cider and pro-wrestling to teach you about the English language.
Check out Chris Van Vliet's interview with Chavo Guerrero here - • Chavo Guerrero on Chri...
As I'm in lockdown, I'm using this time to learn all of Shakespeare's sonnets. I hope you find the modern translation afterwards entertaining. 106 down 48 to go!
This poem is both part of the Fair Youth Sonnets & part of the sequence from 87-126 known as the Fickle Youth Sonnets.
Sonnet 106 full text:
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights;
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have expressed
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring,
And, for they looked but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
Be sure to subscribe here for more of William Shakespeare's sonnets: tiny.cc/fx6imz
One line from every sonnet video 1-100! - • My Year In Lockdown - ...
www.mandy.com/actor/profile/a...
For anyone interested, the book is
The League Of Regrettable Superheroes
by Jon Morris
Kangaroo Man
Created by S. M. Iger & Chuck Winters
Published by Great Comics
Intro music composed & recorded by Joel Goodman.
/ @eppingmusicschool