Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
“I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.”
“Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.”