Line by Line: Shakespeare's Sonnet 29

This video will take you through one of Shakespeare’s sonnets with text and visual annotations. Line by line, you'll explore Shakespeare's gift for language and invention.

A big thank-you to the following resources. Without such resources, this video would not have been possible: No Fear Shakespeare, the Oxford Shakespeare, the Arden Shakespeare, and the artists whose work appears here. Please get in touch if you'd like to know the source of any illustration, clip-art, photograph, or animation.

[Discourse]

Excellent explanation with art. Worth work.

[karenjacksonpetersen]

These are awesome. Thank you for making them-- one point-- Haply means by chance which someone shifts the meaning.

[nor-ainunsaylamponi]

amazing! thank you so much :) nice work (y) keep it up ;)

[hayley]

haply in this context actually refers to the speaker *by chance* and *suddenly* thinking of their lover

[TokianShinzan]

Thanks ! realy helpful for my english work =)

[wadhaalnaemi]

You are AMAZING, it was really helpful ❤

[medricfaulkner]

Haply doesn’t mean happily. It means by chance, luckily, or perhaps through circumstance by accident.