The iSonnets

[kalypso_v]

Every now and then my employers send me an email about something you might actually want to know (that Patroclus/Achilles novel that just won the Orange Prize? You heard it here first!)

Anyway, this week they announced an iPad thingy of Shakespeare's sonnets - the full set of 154 poems, including the Arden text, notes and introduction (this is

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[altariel]

Katherine Duncan-Jones, apparently:
http://www.touchpress.com/titles/shakespeares-sonnets/87/Farewell-thou-art-too-dear-for-my-possessing/

[altariel]

http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-faculty/faculty-members/research-centre-college-staff/duncan-jones-professor-katherine

[selenak]

I'm downloading it as we speak.

[altariel]

Hmm, won't download for me for some reason...

[altariel]

Finally persuaded it to download! From the same people who did the wonderful Waste Land app.

[iainjcoleman]

You can see all the performances via the "browse all 154 sonnets" link.

I've watched a couple of dozen now, and they're splendid. Top class readers - my favourites so far are Dominic West, David Calder and Sian Philips.