Video images are from a rare ORIGINAL 1609 EDITION of Shake-speares Sonnets held by the British Library. It is one of only thirteen copies in existence.
Sonnet 128 is purely for fun; the speaker plies his clever creativity as he dramatizes his feigned jealousy of the keyboard on which his lady is playing music for him.
The poet turns to the elaborate conceits that other sonneteers were accustomed to use as expressions of their desire for closer intimacy with the beloved.
Video images are from a rare ORIGINAL 1609 EDITION of Shake-speares Sonnets held by the British Library. It is one of only thirteen copies in existence.
Sonnet 128 is purely for fun; the speaker plies his clever creativity as he dramatizes his feigned jealousy of the keyboard on which his lady is playing music for him.
The poet turns to the elaborate conceits that other sonneteers were accustomed to use as expressions of their desire for closer intimacy with the beloved.
