To entertain fans that might feel lonely during the coronavirus pandemic, sir Patrick Stewart, who before being known as Captain Picard in Star Trek: TNG was a Shakespearian actor, posted this video of himself reading Sonnet 1 and Sonnet 116. Watch below!
2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So…here we go: Sonnet 1. pic.twitter.com/kDoMNhdqcI
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 22, 2020
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 21, 2020