{"id":10793,"date":"2024-06-03T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/?page_id=10793"},"modified":"2024-06-28T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:13:48","slug":"the-sonnet-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/the-sonnet-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sonnet Man \u2014 Devon Glover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10794 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1-300x166.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1-1024x567.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1-768x425.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1-1536x851.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pashakespeare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sonnet-man-cropped-Logo-1.jpeg 1971w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/166;\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"special_photo\">Saturday, July 6, 2:00PM | Schubert Theatre<\/h3>\n<div id=\"special_text2\">\n<p class=\"spec\">Tickets \u00b7 $30 | PSF Subscriber Tickets \u00b7 $25<\/p>\n<p class=\"spec\"><strong>Devon Glover is \u201cThe Sonnet Man\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Featured artist Devon Glover, a modern-day Sonnet Man, delivers Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets as originally written, and then breaks them down brilliantly into his own original Hip Hop lyrics and song. Mr. Glover\u2019s flow embodies the richness of Shakespeare\u2019s language, and his passionate, yet natural delivery offers an inspiring, creative experience audiences love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrooklyn-reared Devon Glover has turned his fascination with the rhythms of hip-hop and Shakespeare into a career as The Sonnet Man. The artist adapts Shakespeare\u2019s text through his own original hip-hop lyrics. His spoken, sometimes improvised, riffs replace Elizabethan English with modern urban vernacular\u2014His niche as an African American rapper-cum-ambassador for Shakespeare represents the very inclusivity he hopes to bring to classical theater.\u201d \u00a0~ Leo Adam Biga, <em>Humanities <\/em>Magazine*<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"button-link button-link-blue\"><a href=\"https:\/\/psftickets.desales.edu\/TheatreManager\/2\/tmEvent\/tmEvent1075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>About Devon Glover:<\/strong> Born and raised along with two brothers by a single mom in Brooklyn, Glover has strived all his life to make something of himself and to give back. He went through the New York City Public School system and is a graduate of Ithaca College. Mr. Glover teaches and conducts workshops\/performances in Harlem, Queens and Brooklyn. He performed The Sonnet Man in Negril, Jamaica by special invitation from the Board of Education in the Soul Rebellion Hip Hop Festival and tours nationally.<\/p>\n<p>*Originally published as \u201cThe Sonnet Man Brings Hip-Hop to Shakespeare&#8221; in the Spring 2023 issue of <em>Humanities\u00a0<\/em>magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/article\/sonnet-man-brings-hip-hop-shakespeare\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_75426\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-gG4MBdjvQ?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_62003\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0lysMe52x8?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_92868\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_RTrq4mrSg?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"special_text2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 6, 2:00PM | Schubert Theatre Tickets \u00b7 $30 | PSF Subscriber Tickets \u00b7 $25 Devon Glover is \u201cThe Sonnet Man\u201d Featured artist Devon Glover, a modern-day Sonnet Man, delivers Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets as originally written, and then breaks them down brilliantly into his own original Hip Hop lyrics and song. 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