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Dame Helen Mirren - Self-tape

SONNET 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


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SHAKESPEARE NETWORK - Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
Transcript
00:00Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
00:05Thou art more lovely and more temperate, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
00:11May, And summer's lease hath all too short a
00:15date.
00:16Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
00:23And every fair from fair sometime declines By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
00:30But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
00:39Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
00:44When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe and eyes can see,
00:53So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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