Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets

Over on Patrick Stewart's (you know, Captain Picard, Professor Xavier, that Patrick Stewart) Instagram account, he's been posting daily readings of Shakespearean sonnets.

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It has led me to undertake what follows. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1.

A post shared by Patrick Stewart (@sirpatstew) on Mar 22, 2020 at 4:28pm PDT

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