SHAKESPEARE S SONNETS: AN EXPERIMENT I

This class is:

• An introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and a chance to read through them all, slowly and carefully
• An introduction to the way that Shakespeare’s mind worked, and to what he did with words
• An introduction to the sonnet as a form, up to the present moment
• A chance to explore how and why we read, and the difference that the pace of our reading makes
• An opportunity to practice paying a particular kind of extended attention, and to explore what it does to our minds and our memories when we spend time with a body of poems over a series of weeks