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The Final Couplet

The Final Couplet

By: Theo Cowan
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 Join me, Theo Cowan, as I desperately attempt to work out what the hell William Shakespeare was going on about in all those sonnets. Don't worry, I create stupid little stories to accompany each one so you don't get too bored.Theo Cowan Art
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 112

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 112
    Jul 13 2025

    I explore William Shakespeare's 112th Sonnet. I think it's all about being a celebrity and how hard it is to be in the public eye. It's a direct continuation from Sonnet 111 so if you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and have a listen maybe? Our improvised story continues with a development in Shakespeare's love affair with The Earl of Southampton.

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    25 mins
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 111

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 111
    Jul 6 2025

    Shakespeare seems to think being in public eye is making him a bad person - A bit like a celebrity these days...


    Sonnet 111

    O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
    The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
    That did not better for my life provide
    Than public means which public manners breeds.
    Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
    And almost thence my nature is subdued
    To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
    Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
    Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
    Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;
    No bitterness that I will bitter think,
    Nor double penance, to correct correction.
    Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye,
    Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
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    23 mins
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 110

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 110
    Jun 29 2025

    Shakespeare confesses to his lover that he has been cheating!


    Our story continues with The Earl of Southampton making Shakespeare take a trip to St Paul's Cathedral.

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    22 mins

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