Beats: Shakespeare – The Sonnets
I never enjoyed Shakespeare’s works at school. I always appreciated that Shakespeare was an incredibly talented playwright who changed the way we see performing arts and the way we use the English language but it just wasn’t for me. Maybe it was because I wasn’t middle class enough or maybe it was because I was stoned all the time in high school and didn’t really understand what the fuck was going on. I don’t know; it just wasn’t for me. Fast-forward a few years and I get a press release in my mailbox. “The album reinvents Shakespeare ’s Sonnets into modern music with the use of rare and exquisite Elizabethan instruments.” Well, this sounds intriguing. Read on. 11 of Shakespeare’s sonnets performed on instruments from the early 17 th century (That are worth £10,000 upwards) using only Shakespeare’s lyrics with no additions made, although occasionally lines have been moved around to fit the contemporary song structures. The meaning is never altered and the emotion...