<p>Shakespeare's sonnets are comparatively neglected today but they are what Shakespeare himself thought would be his lasting legacy.  We look at a few representative sonnets to discuss how they reflect upon Shakespeare's Elizabethan worldview while also playing with the conventions of the Italian Renaissance.</p>

Shakespeare's sonnets are comparatively neglected today but they are what Shakespeare himself thought would be his lasting legacy. We look at a few representative sonnets to discuss how they reflect upon Shakespeare's Elizabethan worldview while also playing with the conventions of the Italian Renaissance.

<p>Shakespeare's sonnets are comparatively neglected today but they are what Shakespeare himself thought would be his lasting legacy. &nbsp;We look at a few representative sonnets to discuss how they reflect upon Shakespeare's Elizabethan worldview while also playing with the conventions of the Italian Renaissance.</p>

Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Fourteen, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Paideia Today is a podcast in which Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen, professors of English, discuss the great works of western literature. We do so from a now largely lost classical perspective, attempting to illustrate why 2800 years of the greatest thinkers valued these works above all others as keys to understanding the human condition.

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Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Fourteen, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Paidiea Today, Season Two, Episode Fourteen, Shakespeare's Sonnets