A masterly app…As accessible as it is scholarly, it\u2019s an extraordinary achievement, that brings the sonnets bracingly to life and definitively sets the bar for the future of digital reading.’
\n\u2013 Robert Collins, London Sunday Times<\/p>\n
The Sonnets presents William Shakespeare\u2019s immortal collection of love poems in an interactive digital edition that allows you to explore, appreciate and understand this great work of literature as never before. <\/p>\n
All 154 sonnets are performed to camera by a star-studded cast including Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek, X-Men, Royal Shakespeare Company), David Tennant (Dr Who, Hamlet), Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Fiona Shaw (The Waste Land, Harry Potter), Stephen Fry (The Hobbit) and Dominic West (The Wire). These performances \u2013 all specially filmed for the app \u2013 are synchronised to the text, which highlights line by line as each sonnet is spoken.<\/p>\n
The performance videos, running over two and a half hours, are just the beginning. Also included are the complete Notes and Introduction from the Arden Shakespeare, offering unsurpassed scholarly commentary and insight. Touch a mysterious line or difficult word in any of the poems and the corresponding Arden Note highlights to provide comprehensive explanation. An alternative commentary on every sonnet comes from poet and musician Don Paterson, whose humorous and accessible style complements the academic rigour of the Arden Notes.<\/p>\n
Features include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Beautiful filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by an incredible cast of Shakespearian actors and experts
\n\u2022 The complete Arden edition text of The Sonnets plus A Lover\u2019s Complaint
\n\u2022 The complete Arden Shakespeare notes and introduction fully integrated
\n\u2022 New commentary on The Sonnets by Don Paterson
\n\u2022 Facility to add your own notes on any sonnet
\n\u2022 High resolution facsimile of the original 1609 Quarto showing Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets as originally published
\n\u2022 Forty interviews with scholars and experts discussing the meaning of The Sonnets and their author
\n\u2022 Share-a-Sonnet allows you to send a sonnet to friends by email, Twitter or Facebook
\n\u2022 Second generation interface based on the acclaimed Faber \/ Touch Press literary app The Waste Land
\n\u2022 AirPlay enabled allowing the performances to be streamed full screen to AppleTV<\/p>\n
The Sonnets are published by Touch Press, the people behind the best-selling iPad titles The Elements and The Waste Land. The Sonnets was produced and published in partnership with Faber and Faber, Illuminations and the Arden Shakespeare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masterly app…As accessible as it is scholarly, it\u2019s an extraordinary achievement, that brings the sonnets bracingly to life and definitively sets the bar for the future of digital reading.’ \u2013 Robert Collins, London Sunday Times The Sonnets presents William Shakespeare\u2019s immortal collection of love poems in an interactive digital edition that allows you to […]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[66,105],"blooms_verb":[258,325,345,386],"grade_level":[276,277],"discipline":[247,302,396],"fields_interest":[248],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-making-content-meaningful","tag-itunes","tag-references","blooms_verb-explain","blooms_verb-paraphrase","blooms_verb-read","blooms_verb-summarize","grade_level-high-school","grade_level-higher-ed","discipline-english","discipline-literature","discipline-theater","fields_interest-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"blooms_verb","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blooms_verb?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"grade_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grade_level?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"discipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"fields_interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields_interest?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctl.mesacc.edu\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}