Sonnet Sisters

Reading & performing Shakespeare's sonnets, one at a time. On a small screen near you. With @jjenniferjordan & @annaonscreen

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It's #AprilFoolsDay! Who's your favourite Shakespeare fool? Anna's is Feste in Twelfth Night, especially in his 'friends vs foes' duologue with Olivia.

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[Shakespeare’s Globe @The_Globe]

This is what happens when you decide to do some spring cleaning in the attic during lockdown...

Our Collections team have only gone and discovered Shakespeare's long-lost play, Love's Labour's Won!

https://t.co/fOttIcZkTk

[A.R. James (Anna Rose James), she/her 🏳️‍🌈 @annaonscreen]

Playing #SonnetBingo @LiveCanon and the first reading was number 15! Felt so chuffed that it was one I recognised from our archive. 😊 @JJenniferJordan @sonnetsisters

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A horrible coincidence of timeline following our last quote tweet...

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The version of Richard II we will never see.

[Shakespeare Magazine @UKShakespeare]

Shakespeare depicts Richard's Queen as an adult, but Isabella was just six when she was married to Richard, 29. After Richard's fall, Henry IV wanted her to marry his son (later Henry V). She refused, and returned to France. She died in childbirth, aged 19.

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Gorgeous reminder that #Shakespeare IS FOR EVERYONE, and IS ALREADY ACCESSIBLE. Those trying to gatekeep the works from us ruffians, commoners and ladies have always failed. Interpret at Will!

[Shake-scene @shakescenery]

Kicking off 2021 in our new #blog page is @ValeVinciTina talking #Shakespeare on #Zoom & the democracy of performing this way
Great stuff Vale!

https://t.co/A2mIZjBtoq

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The tidied up version was a lie.

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Video now available on our Facebook page! Tidied up podcast version to come.

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My jokes are so convoluted that 8 months on I have zero clue what I was aiming for. I can only hope that in 400 years' time actors will be equally baffled and, in my absence, consider them genius, analysing and performing them one at a time. ~ A

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Casually googling language in the Shakespeare-Pratchett f(ve)an-diagr-om [allow it]. Cankerblossom just (4 centuries ago) got slut-shamey.

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Well, shit.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In Elizabethan England, the word 'Nothing' was slang for female genitalia. The title of the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a double entendre.

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@ChrisBushWrites Personally I like Celtx! Free and full of format templates.

[Shakespeare Magazine @UKShakespeare]

Currently working on a Shakespeare-themed book for the self-help market, 'Romeo and Juliet's Guide to Life'.

It's pretty short.

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Casually googling language in the Shakespeare-Pratchett f(ve)an-diagr-om [allow it]. Cankerblossom just (4 centuries ago) got slut-shamey.

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Video now available on our Facebook page! Tidied up podcast version to come.

[A.R. James (Anna Rose James), she/her 🏳️‍🌈 @annaonscreen]

Going live at 12:30 today on @sonnetsisters Facebook with
@JJenniferJordan to discuss and explore Shakespeare's Sonnet 31. Join us here: https://t.co/qEqNyEqQPf

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Oh hi. 👋 #Shakespeare #sonnets #IsolationCreations @annaonscreen @JJenniferJordan @ArtsYorkOnline https://t.co/h1zhREclWt

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@filmpixie Thank you so much for the share, Nat!

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@ClearShakes @JJenniferJordan Our time has come.

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@UKShakespeare @reduced doing The Complete Works (Abridged) in (I think) Ross-on-Wye at a festival in about 1996. I fell in love. ~A

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Aren't intertextual references just wonderful?

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#Shakespeare #Marlowe Fun fact: This line from Marlowe's Faustus (left) is one of Anna's all-time favourites, and continues "I'd give them all for Mephistophilis". Get yourself a bae who looks at you the way Faustus looks at this soul-conning demon.

[Caroline Worswick @theatre_feline]

Here’s a reminder - Top 5 ‘Bard inspired’ picks for @edfringe from @NorthWestEnd Macbeth @MacbethEdFringe, Impromptu Shakespeare @ImpromptuShakes, Rubbish Shakespeare, AMND @RubbishShakes, The Handlebards, Much Ado @HandleBards and Juliet & Romeo @lostdogdance