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The Classic Theatre
by Sanio
Hi - my name is Sanio Kurtesvic and I'm an NYC based actor. This is a podcast where I read works written by various authors, to keep my art fresh and alive. Thanks for listening!To connect or collaborate, check me out at: https://www.sanio-actor.info
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Sonnet 49 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #49 Synopsis: The poet tries to prepare himself for a future in which the beloved rejects him. When that day comes, he writes, he will shield himself within the knowledge of his own worth, acknowledging...
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Sonnet 48 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #48 Synopsis: The poet contrasts the relative ease of locking away valuable material possessions with the impossibility of safeguarding his relationship with the beloved. The beloved can be enclosed only...
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Sonnet 47 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #47 Synopsis: After the verdict is rendered (in s. 46), the poet’s eyes and heart become allies, with the eyes sometimes inviting the heart to enjoy the picture, and the heart sometimes inviting the eyes...
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Sonnet 46 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #46 Synopsis: In this first of another pair of sonnets (perhaps a witty thank-you for the gift of a miniature portrait), the poet’s eyes and his heart are in a bitter dispute about which has the legal...
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Sonnet 45 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #45 Synopsis: This sonnet, the companion to s. 44, imagines the poet’s thoughts and desires as the “other two” elements—air and fire—that make up “life’s composition.” When his thoughts and desires are...
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Sonnet 44 (Shakespeare)
#44 Synopsis: In this sonnet, which links with s. 45 to form, in effect, a two-part poem, the poet wishes that he were thought rather than flesh so that he could be with the beloved. The poet, being mortal, is instead made up of the four elements—earth, air, fire, and water. The dullest of these...
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Sonnet 43 (Shakespeare)
#43 Synopsis: The poet, separated from the beloved, reflects on the paradox that because he dreams of the beloved, he sees better with his eyes closed in sleep than he does with them open in daylight. His desire, though, is to see not the dream image but the actual person. When most I wink, then…
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Sonnet 42 (Shakespeare)
#42 Synopsis: The poet attempts to excuse the two lovers. He first argues that they love each other only because of him; he then argues that since he and the young man are one, in loving the young man, the woman actually loves the poet. The poet acknowledges, though, that all of this is mere...
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Sonnet 41 (Shakespeare)
#41 Synopsis: The poet again tries to forgive the young man, now on the grounds that the young man could hardly have been expected to refuse the woman’s seduction. The attempt to forgive fails because the young man has caused a twofold betrayal: his beauty having first seduced the woman, both he...
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Sonnet 40 (Shakespeare)
#40 Synopsis: This first of three linked sonnets accuses the young man of having stolen the poet’s “love.” The poet struggles to justify and forgive the young man’s betrayal, but can go no farther than the concluding “we must not be foes.” (While the word love is elaborately ambiguous in this...
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Sonnet 39 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #39 Synopsis: As in s. 36, the poet finds reasons to excuse the fact that he and the beloved are parted. First, it is easier to praise the beloved if they are not a “single one”; and, second, absence…
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Sonnet 38 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #38 Synopsis: The poet attributes all that is praiseworthy in his poetry to the beloved, who is his theme and inspiration. How can my muse want subject to invent While thou dost breathe that pour’st into...
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Sonnet 37 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #37 Synopsis: The poet feels crippled by misfortune but takes delight in the blessings heaped by nature and fortune on the beloved. As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of...
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Sonnet 36 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #36 Synopsis: The poet accepts the fact that for the sake of the beloved’s honorable name, their lives must be separate and their love unacknowledged. "Let me confess that we two must be twain Although…
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Sonnet 35 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #35 Synopsis: The poet excuses the beloved by citing examples of other naturally beautiful objects associated with things hurtful or ugly. He then accuses himself of being corrupted through excusing his...
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Sonnet 34 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #34 Synopsis: In this sonnet the sun is again overtaken by clouds, but now the sun/beloved is accused of having betrayed the poet by promising what is not delivered. The poet writes that while the...
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Sonnet 33 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #33 Synopsis: The poet describes the sun first in its glory and then after its being covered with dark clouds; this change resembles his relationship with the beloved, who is now “masked” from him. But…
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Sonnet 32 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #32 Synopsis: The poet imagines his poems being read and judged by his beloved after the poet’s death, and he asks that the poems, though not as excellent as those written by later writers, be kept and...
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Sonnet 31 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #31 Synopsis: The poet sees the many friends now lost to him as contained in his beloved. Thus, the love he once gave to his lost friends is now given wholly to the beloved. Thy bosom is endearèd with…
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Sonnet 30 (Shakespeare)
#30 Synopsis: The poet pictures his moments of serious reflection as a court session in which his memories are summoned to appear. As they come forward, he grieves for all that he has lost, but he then thinks of his beloved friend and the grief changes to joy. When to the sessions of sweet silent...
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Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #29 Synopsis: The poet, dejected by his low status, remembers his friend’s love, and is thereby lifted into joy. When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And...
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Sonnet 28 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #28 Synopsis: Continuing the thought of s. 27, the poet claims that day and night conspire to torment him. Though he has flattered both day and night by comparing them to beautiful qualities of his...
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Sonnet 27 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #27 Synopsis: In this first of two linked sonnets, the poet complains that the night, which should be a time of rest, is instead a time of continuing toil as, in his imagination, he struggles to reach…
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Sonnet 26 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #26 Synopsis: The poet, assuming the role of a vassal owing feudal allegiance, offers his poems as a token of duty, apologizing for their lack of literary worth. He begs his liege lord to protect this...
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Sonnet 25 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #25 Synopsis: The poet contrasts himself with those who seem more fortunate than he. Their titles and honors, he says, though great, are subject to whim and accident, while his greatest blessing, his…
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Sonnet 24 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #24 Synopsis: This sonnet elaborates the metaphor of carrying the beloved’s picture in one’s heart. The poet claims that his eyes have painted on his heart a picture of the beloved. The poet’s body is…
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Sonnet 23 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #23 Synopsis: The poet blames his inability to speak his love on his lack of self-confidence and his too-powerful emotions, and he begs his beloved to find that love expressed in his writings. As an...
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Sonnet 22 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #22 Synopsis: This sonnet plays with the poetic idea of love as an exchange of hearts. The poet urges the young man to take care of himself, since his breast carries the poet’s heart; and the poet…
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Sonnet 21 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #21 Synopsis: The poet contrasts himself with poets who compare those they love to such rarities as the sun, the stars, or April flowers. His poetry will, he writes, show his beloved as a beautiful…
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Sonnet 20 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #20 Synopsis: The poet fantasizes that the young man’s beauty is the result of Nature’s changing her mind: she began to create a beautiful woman, fell in love with her own creation, and turned it into a...
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Sonnet 19 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #19 Synopsis: The “war with Time” announced in Sonnet 15 is here engaged in earnest as the poet, allowing Time its usual predations, forbids it to attack the young man. Should this command fail to be...
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Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #18 Synopsis: In a radical departure from the previous sonnets, the young man’s beauty, here more perfect even than a day in summer, is not threatened by Time or Death, since he will live in perfection...
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Sonnet 17 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #17 Synopsis: As further argument against mere poetic immortality, the poet insists that if his verse displays the young man’s qualities in their true splendor, later ages will assume that the poems are...
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Sonnet 16 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #16 Synopsis: Continuing the thought of s. 15, the poet argues that procreation is a “mightier way” than poetry for the young man to stay alive, since the poet’s pen cannot present him as a living being....
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Sonnet 15 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #15 Synopsis: In the first of two linked sonnets, the poet once again examines the evidence that beauty and splendor exist only for a moment before they are destroyed by Time. Here the poet...
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Sonnet 14 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #14 Synopsis: As astrologers predict the future from the stars, so the poet reads the future in the “constant stars” of the young man’s eyes, where he sees that if the young man breeds a son, truth and...
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Sonnet 13 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #13 Synopsis: The poet argues that the young man, in refusing to prepare for old age and death by producing a child, is like a spendthrift who fails to care for his family mansion, allowing it to be...
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Sonnet 12 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #12 Synopsis: As he observes the motion of the clock and the movement of all living things toward death and decay, the poet faces the fact that the young man’s beauty will be destroyed by Time. Nothing...
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Sonnet 11 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #11 Synopsis: The poet once again urges the young man to choose a future in which his offspring carry his vitality forward instead of one in which his natural gifts will be coldly buried. The very...
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Sonnet 10 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #10 Synopsis: This sonnet, expanding the couplet that closes s. 9, accuses the young man of a murderous hatred against himself and his family line and urges him to so transform himself that his inner…
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'The Looking Glass' by Anton Chekhov
Nellie is dreamy and lost in thoughts of her future and the man she loves. As she stares into the mirror, she sees the reflection of her future husband and begins to imagine her life with him. Suddenly, Nellie's dream is interrupted by a crisis. Her husband is ill and Nellie rushes to the…
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'The Lottery Ticket' by Anton Chekhov
And here comes the winning ticket! The numbers are... When Ivan Dmitritch reads the newspapes, he sees that the winning numbers from the lottery are very much the same as his wife’s ticket. They immediately start to daydream about all the things they can buy now and the life they are going to…
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Sonnet 9 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #9 Synopsis: The poet argues that if the young man refuses to marry for fear of someday leaving behind a grieving widow, he is ignoring the worldwide grief that will be caused if he dies single, leaving...
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Sonnet 8 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #8 Synopsis: The poet observes the young man listening to music without pleasure, and suggests that the young man hears in the harmony produced by the instrument’s individual but conjoined strings an...
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Sonnet 7 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #7 Synopsis: This sonnet traces the path of the sun across the sky, noting that mortals gaze in admiration at the rising and the noonday sun. When the sun begins to set, says the poet, it is no longer an...
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Sonnet 6 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #6 Synopsis: Continuing the argument from sonnet 5, the poet urges the young man to produce a child, and thus distill his own summerlike essence. The poet then returns to the beauty-as-treasure metaphor...
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'About Love' by Anton Chekhov
"About Love" is an 1898 short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by "The Man in the Case" and continued by "Gooseberries". (Project Gutenberg, Public Domain)
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Sonnet 5 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #5 Synopsis: In this first of two linked sonnets, the poet compares the young man to summer and its flowers, doomed to be destroyed by winter. Even though summer inevitably dies, he argues, its flowers…
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Sonnet 4 (Shakespeare)
A Sonnet (or short poem) from a collection written by William Shakespeare, published in 1609. #4 Synopsis: The poet returns to the idea of beauty as treasure that should be invested for profit. Here, the young man’s refusal to beget a child is likened to his spending inherited wealth on himself...
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'The Proposal' by Anton Chekhov
The Proposal is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888–1889 and first performed in 1890. A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics. Rather than emotionally bonding in relationships, people instead connect with wealth and...
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Hi - my name is Sanio Kurtesvic and I'm an NYC based actor. This is a podcast where I read works written by various authors, to keep my art fresh and alive. Thanks for listening!To connect or collaborate, check me out at: https://www.sanio-actor.info
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