SonnetFest

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00 am

Shakespeare and Possibility returns with Sonnetfest, in a brand-new incarnation for 2024! Don’t miss this reading of every one of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, performed and live streamed on Valentine’s Day, Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ET by a wide range of luminaries from Notre Dame, the Michiana region, and even across the globe. 

The grand finale of Sonnetfest 2024 will feature a special performance at 5:00 p.m. ET by The Sonnet Man, Devon Glover! Glover is a teacher, rapper, poet, playwright and actor from Brooklyn, New York. He performs Shakespeare’s Sonnets through Hip-Hop as The Sonnet Man in schools and theaters worldwide. Devon has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, BBC, and Conferences and Shakespeare Festivals worldwide, including Stratford, Ontario, and Stratford-upon-Avon. He has taught with Stratford Shakespeare, Passion in Practice, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Southern Shakespeare. Devon has written adaptations of Shakespeare for various theatre companies. In the summer of 2019, Devon was commissioned to write a hip-hop adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Lyrica). In 2022, Glover made his directorial debut, directing Othello for Flagstaff Shakespeare. In the summer of 2023, Devon was brought in to compose and create sound design for Prague Shakespeare’s ‘Roman Daggers’, a mash-up adaptation of Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, where he also took on the role of Cinna The Poet. For more information, visit sonnetman.com.

Iambic Pentameter Made Marvelous

Learn more about the rhythmic structure of much of William Shakespeare’s work from Christy Burgess, Shakespeare Outreach Director at the Robinson Community Learning Center.

Christy Burgess and Deb Gasper field questions on the topic of iambic pentameter.

Sonnetfest 2016

Highlights from Sonnet Fest 2016, presented by the St. Joseph County Public Library and Shakespeare at Notre Dame.

Sonnetfest 2013

Sonnetfest 2011

All of William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets were read aloud by University of Notre Dame administrators, faculty and students during “Sonnetfest 2011,” on Feb. 14, 2011 in the Great Hall of O’Shaughnessy Hall on the Notre Dame campus.