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Two Loves I have of Comfort and Despair

Two Loves I have of Comfort and Despair (April 2019): Shakespeare's Sonnets introduced and recited by the actor Sam Dastor at the Kempe Studio, Stratford.

Poster for Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair: an Elizabethan miniature of a young man lying among roses, with a photo of Sam Dastor
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Date
Time
7.30 pm
Venue
Studio at The Muses, 58 Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Two Loves I have of Comfort and Despair – Celebrating Shakespeare’s Sonnets was Programme II of the Rudolf Kempe Society’s 2019 Songs of Apollo season. The actor Sam Dastor introduced and recited the Sonnets on Sunday 7 April 2019 at 7.30 pm at the Kempe Studio at The Muses, 58 Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was given in aid of the Rudolf Kempe Society International Young Artists Platform.

Performer

  • Sam Dastor – introduction and recitation

Programme

  • William Shakespeare – the Sonnets

About the programme

The title is the first line of Sonnet 144 – “Two loves I have of comfort and despair” – the poem of the fair youth and the dark lady. The poster shows a Picasso-style sketch of Shakespeare and Nicholas Hilliard’s Elizabethan miniature of a young man leaning against a tree among roses.

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The Rudolf Kempe Society closed in 2021. This page is kept as a record of a past event.