259 Shakespeare's Best | Sonnets 129 and 130 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In the fourth and final installment of A Month of Shakespearean Sonnets, Jacke takes a look at two sonnets from the Dark Lady sequence, Sonnet 129 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame") and Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"). Listen to the Shakespeare whom poet Don Paterson described as giving us "a terrific display of self-directed fury, raging away in the little cage of the sonnet like a spitting wildcat." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	The expense of spirit and a waste of shame is lust in action.
0:16.0	And till action, lust is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame.
0:23.5	Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust.
0:28.4	Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight.
0:31.9	Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past Reason hated as a
0:37.1	Swallowed bait on purpose lage to make the taker mad, mad in pursuit and in possession soul, had having and in quest to have extreme.
0:49.4	A bliss in proof and proved a very woe before a joy proposed behind a dream.
1:00.0	Oh this the world well knows yet none knows well to shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
1:10.0	That's Maureen Beatty, reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, the expensive spirit in a waste of shame.
1:17.0	We're on our fourth week of Shakespearean sonnets today. This was our treat for August.
1:22.0	This is how we've spent our August
1:24.6	Thursdays. Four for four and man did Shakespeare ever come through that, good writer.
1:34.0	Did I ever tell you my story about Christopher Guest and Michael McKeon?
1:38.0	You may know them as two members of Spinal Tap or from movies like Best in Show, American Treasures.
1:45.0	Really, in my opinion, both of them, they are as good as it gets.
1:48.0	Michael McKeon was on Better Call Saul, played the brother Chuck recently. Michael McKeon had a birthday, the story goes, so
1:55.6	Christopher Guest sent him a book of Shakespeare's poems and on the inside cover he
1:59.9	wrote, Michael, this is that author I was telling you about.
2:05.0	Shakespeare, yes, indeed.
2:08.0	Here's that writer I was telling you about.
2:11.0	Shakespeare is the one who outrases us all as Virginia Wolf says
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