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“O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, / By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!” In this short film for the Sonnet Project, Gabrielle Beans performs Shakespeare’s Sonnet 54 at Sakura Park in Morningside Heights in New York City.
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In this short film for the Sonnet Project, Michelle Beck performs Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 at Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell in New York City. The Sonnet Project, which aims to film all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, is featured in News and Trends in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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In this short film starring Brian Cheng, Shakespeare's Sonnet 82 is played out at the Strand Book Store in New York City as part of the Sonnet Project.
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The Sonnet Project combines cinematic art with the poetry of William Shakespeare, set against the backdrop of New York City. The goal of the project is to film all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each performed by a different actor in a carefully chosen New York City location. This is their sixty-seventh film.
