Orlando (film) - Poetry

Poetry

Portions of poetry occur in the film:

  • The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • "Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare
  • "Women" ("Surat al-Nisa") from the Quran
  • "The Indian Serenade" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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