Shakespeare's Sonnets Re-doneSHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS RE-DONE consists of all 154 of the sonnets William Shakespeare sent down to us; however, those items have been given some evident rewritings -- between ‘translations’ and ‘adaptations’. Stylistic compromises infest the now perhaps final versions. For instance, some definite splittings of infinitives and some very findable examples of the expletive ‘there’ and the expletive ‘it’--along with such probably major solecisms as Enjambment--might be seen as real detractors. After an Editorial While had elapsed a giving up occurred. [Bruce Hamilton had intended to reduce to zero the occurrences of the word “wow,” but he somehow retained all such occurrences.] SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS RE-DONE reflects an abiding wish to produce highly accessible Modern Versions of Shakespeare’s ‘originals.’ |
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... cure all future ills life couldn't feel defiled. Thus, you'd be so new-made when you'd grown old your blood might never have to grow quite cold. [Redone by Bruce Hamilton] Gaze in your glass, and tell Shakespeare's Sonnet #2.
... never gives, though she may lend, and, being wise, she lends to no warped elf. So, you, you lovely miser, why O, why do you abuse the wealth that's long been yours? Ungracious skinflint, why do you so ply the sums you own they bode no ...
... never-resting Time leads summer on to hideous winter and confounds things there, checks sap with frost and quickly leaves each swan so snowbound bleakness blossoms everywhere. And, when that happens, were the summer's seed not quite ...
... never war with sweets, and joy likes joy. How can you love a thing you take amiss, and why can't you treat pain as “one more toy”? If the fine marriage of delightful sounds, retuned and tuned again, offends your ear, that's probably ...
... never hesitate to gore yourself as if you'd so completely ruinate Time's purest roof all hope must find a shelf. O, change your thought, so I can change my mind! Shall hate be better lodged than gentle love? Be what your presence is ...