Shakespeare’s Sonnets Exposed: Resurrecting The Podcast

Sonnet 32 analyzed after a three-and-a-half year hiatus

A stylized image of a rose, Shakespeare’s metaphor for himself throughout his sonnet sequence. Image created by Mr Cat, the illustrator of the graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

How Shakespeare’s Four-Hundred Year-Old Sonnets Drove Me To Madness

Two years ago, I posted an article on Medium explaining my obsession with Shakespeare’s Sonnets, where my obsession comes from and what I’m attempting to achieve. While we have continued to produce more pages for the graphic novel — we’re currently working on page 30*, which is more than halfway through the first sonnet — at that point I was neck-deep in the bureaucracy and stress of emigrating during a pandemic, and the podcast had been stalled for a year and a half already.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Well, it’s now been three and a half years since I published episode 32, and just under a year since my family and I finally got our citizenship statuses sorted out and were able to start breathing normally again. Last week marks the…