SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

About SONNETCAST – William Shakespeare's Sonnets Recited, Revealed, Relived

Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and several other plays and books, looks at each of William Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets in the originally published sequence, giving detailed explanations and looking out for what the words themselves tell us about the great poet and playwright, about the Fair Youth and the Dark Lady, and about their complex and fascinating relationships. Podcast transcripts, the sonnets, contact details and full info at https://www.sonnetcast.com

Publisher

Sebastian Michael

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Sept 2022

Latest episode

30 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

170 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Nov 2025

   Summary & Conclusion

   In this, the – at least for the time-being – final episode of his podcast on William Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sebastian Michael offers a brief summary of his findings and also takes the opportunity to examine in a little more detail the view held by some contemporary editors that the sonnets may not principally be about a Fair Youth and a Dark Lady – a contention that is largely based on a supposition that many of these poems "could be addressed to a male or a female" as one recent edition puts it – to see whether it stands up to scrutiny as we formulate any conclusion.

2. 

   23 Nov 2025

   Dating the Sonnets — With Miro Roman

   In this special episode, Sebastian Michael is joined by architect, author, and coder Miro Roman to talk about their experimentation with applying a machine learning approach to comparing the full text of William Shakespeare's Sonnets to the full text of his plays and narrative poems to examine whether such a methodology can confirm the rare word analysis research that has previously been carried out by Macdonald P Jackson and others towards dating the sonnets.

3. 

   16 Nov 2025

   The Quarto Edition of 1609 and its Dedication

   In this special edition of Sonnetcast, Sebastian Michael takes a closer look at our original source for William Shakespeare's Sonnets, examining in detail the few textual issues it presents, the much debated origin of the manuscript, and the dedication by its publisher Thomas Thorpe to a "Mr. W. H." which has been puzzling readers of these poems for centuries.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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78

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YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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