Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
UPDATE:
Appreciating Shakespeare by Gideon Rappaport, also available as a BOOK in hardcover, paperback, and eBook, offers knowledge and tools for appreciating Shakespeare's deep and universal meanings. Other books by Doctor Rap include William Shakespeare's Hamlet (a completely annotated edition), Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An Outline, High School Homilies, and Paradox, all published by One Mind Good Press and available wherever books are sold.
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Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
What Is a Sonnet For? (Series I, Chapter 11)
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Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?
What is a poem?
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Did Shakespeare really mean it?
How long did it take him to write one?
To whom did he write them?
Was Shakespeare gay?
Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/frost-tennis.html. The Hecht quotation is from Anthony Hecht, Introduction to G. Blakemore Evans, Ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, repr. 1998), p. 15. The Dickinson quotation is from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L342a, quoted at https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/later_years.
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