Thank you. This is also a set with sonnet 42, so I hope you enjoy that video as well

Thanks. It's part of a set, so sonnets 40, 41 & 42 are all in this style. It was really fun to make

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'm happy you're enjoying them. Thanks for watching.

Thanks. It was during lockdown a few years ago so I didn't have much chance to get my hair cut for a while

I'm glad you're finding my work fun and useful 🙂 good luck with your videos

Thank you very much, and thanks for watching.

Thanks so much for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is the only one where I put two consecutive sonnets in one video, it was a fun challenge.

I'm glad you like it, thank you so much for watching

@@shakespearelockeddown868 Sure thing! I am working on a project called Multilingual Shakespeare and I am doing research on how people do their interpretations and I have to tell you yours are absolutely truly amazing. They cut right to the core of the message and also fun. So really well done!

@@juliadavydova488 thank you very much, that means a lot. Despite only having a smartphone to work with, I worked really hard on these and I'm really glad you appreciate them 😊

@@shakespearelockeddown868 Just the smartphone? Wow, man that's amazing ! Are you working on any other projects like this one? Where did you study acting?

@@juliadavydova488 I'm currently touring with a theatre company in France. When I get back to the UK I'm hoping to start working on a Shakespeare project of my own. I didn't study acting. I just sort of fell into it and learned with each job.

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Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it

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@@shakespearelockeddown868 wth is liked I Loved it.

That's an interesting interpretation of this sonnet, I've never really thought of the Fair Youth as being a baby before because of the nature of the romantic love expressed by Shakespeare in many of the sonnets. For me this feels more like an immediate continuation of the previous sonnet. In sonnet 69 Shakespeare talks about how all the people who compliment the Fair Youth's beauty to his face slander his actions behind his back. Then in this sonnet he goes on to say that people often assume beautiful people can be easily tempted into base actions, but despite peoples' assumptions the Fair Youth has stayed pure.

@@shakespearelockeddown868 I can relate to your interpretation. The reason I look at Shakespeare's work with a new frame of reference is a newfound clarity I have about correcting the fault. The fault that occurs through the birth ritual, violent cut of the umbilical chord, and deposit of ones genetic property into the public trust, which gives rise to the fictional character which title we assume. In the Hamlet to be or not to be soliloquy, Shakespeare refers to it as" For in that sleep of death what dreams May come for when we shuffled off that mortal coil". The mortal coil is the placenta and the umbilical cord the part of you that is with you from the zygote or the inspiration of life until the birth. The placenta dies and stops pulsating once out of the womb but you're a state meaning your genetic makeup lives on. It is the sacrificial lamb the baby Jesus who bears the cross as you cross the motherland from your spiritual source to this sovereign land. Now if your delivery is not in its entirety and a part of you is Left behind AKA v placenta, it becomes a claimable treasure which a pirate can then lay claim to. Your equity is now held in public trust with your placenta or mortal coil being the deposit in the bank collateralize doing your estate as the next friend. You've now assumed the character whose title is recorded think to mend a broken chord. This fictional person now abides and complies to law of the sea or maritime law which is what Shakespeare references, to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortunes, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. To die to sleep no more.

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So glad you found my video helpful! Good luck with your presentation 🙂

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed making this series

Cheers Col 🙂 glad you liked it. I'm good ta, hope you are too.

Thank you very much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Coming from another actor your comments mean a lot 🙂

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That's very kind of you to say. I've been touring in theatre shows since October, but once I have more time I plan on doing videos for Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets

@@shakespearelockeddown868 That sounds amazing. 😊👍

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Thank you, this was a really fun project to make. I'm glad you're enjoying my videos

Thank you so much for watching, I'm really glad you enjoyed it

Glad you liked the ending. Thanks for watching 😊

Thanks for letting me know 😄

I've applied. Thank you so much for letting me know, that was so kind of you! ❤️

@@shakespearelockeddown868 Fingers crossed. You're welcome 🙂

Glad you're still enjoying my videos. I've been taking a short break from KZfaq as I'm touring a show round the UK. I will be back on here to make videos of all the Dark Lady sonnets in the new year.

I'm glad my video was able to help you to write an explanation of your own. I worked really hard on my translations, and I'm happy you took the time to listen, understand and write in your own words. Good luck with your exams.

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Hello, thanks for watching 🙂 Yes. The first 126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are known as The Fair Youth sequence and in them Shakespeare is addressing a young man who is never named.

@@shakespearelockeddown868 ok thank you so much sir you've been a big help for my school work😊

@@midgeledesma3248 I'm so happy you found my videos helpful 😊

I'm glad you enjoy my video 🙂 I hope other viewers find my content just as helpful.

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@@shakespearelockeddown868 it is cool! Love it!!

Thank you. That means a lot 😃

Thanks so much for watching 😊

Ha, thanks buddy. It's the same thing I wore in my very first video!

I can't take any credit for writing it, but I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊 thanks for watching

Thank you. And I'm glad you found the description helpful 😊

Great point! I definitely think as a set 123-125 do switch the focus of the word 'love' and Shakespeare talks more about his own poetry. There are language links like the 'no' you pointed out that put these together as a set. For me though, the intent changes for Sonnet 125. Sonnets 123 and 124 can be read almost as one seemless poem about Shakespeare's work not being a slave to fashion; the first quatrain of the latter builds on the previous sonnet's rhyming couplet. There's a new intent with Sonnet 125. It feels like a separate thought; a new poem building on Shakespeare's more mature views on his love for the Fair Youth. What do you think? The last rhyming couplet is definitely much more succinct in Shakespeare's language 😅 Sometimes he says so much in so few words and other times I find he says so little with more! 😂 But his language is always so witty and beautiful. I now have all 126 of the Fair Youth sequence memorised 😄 I've recited Shakespeare every day since March 2020 so I'm going to take a little break before tackling the Dark Lady sonnets. Plus I have a script to learn and rehearsals to attend now theatres are open again 😊

Oh thanks so much. It means a lot that you appreciate my translations and keep coming back to watch them 🙂

Usually I write a line-by-line literal modern version of the sonnet just to get a loose understanding of it. Then I learn the sonnet. I practice my memorised sonnets every morning and evening. While I'm learning and reciting the sonnet, that's when I get my head around the intent and meaning of what Shakespeare was writing. Then when I record my video I record the Shakespeare version first and make sure I have 3 good takes to choose from. After that I improvise a version in modern English, not planning what I'm going to say but just turning the camera on and trying to communicate what I believe Shakespeare meant. I try to get 3 takes of this too. Then I choose the best takes and edit my video together. I try not to overthink any of it, but I think there's a marked improvement in my performances since my first video.

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Thank you. It was a really tricky one to translate into modern English. Shakespeare's language is so concise while expressing so much

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