{"id":21756,"date":"2026-03-05T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21756"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:36:07","slug":"shakespeares-sonnets-performed-by-sir-patrick-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21756","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnets Performed by Sir Patrick Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next month, Audible will release a recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4cwXr4A\">Shakespeare&#8217;s 154 sonnets performed and commented on by Sir Patrick Stewart<\/a>. You&#8217;ll need to sign up for Audible, either a free trial or subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stewart started sharing sonnets on social media during the pandemic. Now, they are collected in an audiobook along with Stewart&#8217;s comments and related stories. This should be excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serious fans of the sonnets may want to compare this recording with that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4d4pMiK\">Cambridge <em>All the Sonnets of Shakespeare<\/em><\/a>, read by Kenneth Branagh and Lolita Chakrabarti, which will no doubt be more scholarly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month, Audible will release a recording of Shakespeare&#8217;s 154 sonnets performed and commented on by Sir Patrick Stewart. You&#8217;ll need to sign up for Audible, either a free trial or subscription. Stewart started sharing sonnets on social media during the pandemic. Now, they are collected in an audiobook along with Stewart&#8217;s comments and related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnets Performed by Sir Patrick Stewart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[5879,4666],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-poetry","tag-sonnets","tag-william-shakespeare"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21757,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756\/revisions\/21757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}