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Sonnet 138
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Gupta, Sen. “Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” A Shakespeare Manual. 2nd ed. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1982. 155-178. Print.
All Shakespeare’s sonnets are collaborated in the chapter. There also is some more information that will help you understand more about the works. This book is available at Office of Acedemic Resources, Chulalongkorn University.
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Wells, Stanley and Lena Cowen Orlin. “Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2003. 295-306. Print.
The book is a guideline to read and comprehend Shakespeare’s works. The chapter provides useful information to study Shakespeare’s sonnets. It discusses several related topics about the sonnets including structures, complication, figures and speech acts. This book is available at Office of Acedemic Resources, Chulalongkorn University.
All Shakespeare’s sonnets are digitized into a digital book. It is available for everybody in several types of files.
Classic Literature Video Book combines audio files of Shakespeare’s sonnets with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. It helps learners to learn the poems from listening and reading at the same time.
Professors Stanley Wells and Jonathan Bate talk to Paul Edmondson about the content and context of Shakespeare's collection of sonnets.
As part of an “in-studio master class”, a British television program in 1979, Trevor Nunn coaches David Suchet, an actor, to perform the famous sonnet of Shakespeare, Sonnet 138. They interpret the poem lines by lines to get its meaning and implication before performing it as a mini play. The performance helps learners see the dramatic situation of the poem.
Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. LibriVox records all of the sonnets and digitizes it into digital audio files that are accessible for everyone.
The site provides the full text of the plays and poems of the famous playwright and poet, Shakespeare, with the Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in his works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can help modern readers and learner to comprehend the works.
For those who want to learn more about Shakespeare’s work, the site offers Shakespeare’s plays and poetry categorized into comedy, history, tragedy and poetry.