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[ghazalah]

For Jack and Stephen, a marriage of true minds

Sonnet CXVILet me not to the marriage of true minds

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[ladybretagne]

Aww, my favourite sonnet!

[ghazalah]

I'm ashamed to admit that I only studied his plays. :-o At least I'm not over-familiar, and they can still strike me as brand new.

[ladybretagne]

We always had to recite one of his sonnets for my acting classes in high school and college, gorgeous stuff. Not surprisingly. ;-)

[sparowe]

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

I love that part. :)

[ghazalah]

And didja notice the boaty bit, with the star guiding the bark? :-)

[all_ahoo]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds

Oh god, that's so perfect for Jack and Stephen. Lovely.

[ghazalah]

Isn't it though? I reckon it's mostly Jack who does not alter when he alteration finds. He takes each new revelation about Stephen with momentary interest, and then proceeds right along with the Love.

[kyttenfae]

*beams happily at well beloved sonnet*

Of course I used this in a fanfic once about Horatio and Archie, but I suppose it works as well in this sense. ;-)

[ghazalah]

You did!? Then it will always be Horatio and Archie for you. :-) There aren't so many friendships this sonnet could be about, are there. I had never read it thinking of platonic love until I read it and thought of Jack and Stephen, and realized that of course it's about deep friendship as well as the other.

[esteven]

One of my favourite sonnets.I remember it having given the title to a K/S story.
XIV and XVIII(which is my overall favourite,anywhere)spring immediately to my mind.
Shakespeare's sonnets are just so beautiful,one can easily think them a description of Jack's and Stephen's love.
Thank you for pointing this out again,and like I said,it is one of my favourites.

[ghazalah]

I'm in awe of your sonnet-numbering knowledge! For a Shakespeare fan, I'm shamefully unread in his sonnets. I will try to mend my ways. (Macbeth and Hamlet are two of my favorite things ever, and if I grab my big Shakespeare, I tend to get sucked back into those...)

I'm even more in awe of you tackling early modern English. I broke my brain trying to read even a few stanzas of Faust in German. *eek*

[esteven]

I'm in awe of your sonnet-numbering knowledge!
The numbering part is not too bad really as the Penguin Classics' edition of the sonnets is never far from my table. And it is 18 which I love above all else, knowing it by heart:"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day".
I will try to mend my ways.
Try VIII,XVI,XXVI,XXIX,XXXIII,LXXIII,LXXV,CIV,CXXVIII,CXLIV
*smile* I will gladly write down the first lines, should you not find them. Some will answer easily for Jack and Stephen.
As to the plays, Hamlet is certainly a favourite and I love my videos of the RSC/BBC with a young Derek Jacobi as Hamlet.
The comedies aren't so high on my agenda( with the exception oo the screened version of "Much ado" with Branagh and Thompson)
I broke my brain trying to read even a few stanzas of Faust in German. *eek*I can readily believe that, Faust is a bit difficult and I must admit NOT a favourite of mine.Being German I really shouldn't say that.*shamefaced* I like his poems though and am much more fond of Schiller and his "Don Carlos", a play that cannot

[ghazalah]

[BLASPHEMY] The comedies generally leave me indifferent [/BLASPHEMY] though Branagh has a wonderful way of drawing out the humor. I've seen a whole lotta Shakespeare, and those under his direction have been the only ones that actually get me to laugh out loud, instead of thinking "oh, this is the comic relief bit". He has a nice deft touch.

I've got a long weekend with nothing to do, so I'll read the sonnets you recommend! :-) And I'll scout out Don Carlos.