I disagree. He makes them very Rufus, which is fair enough. He's not the measure of Shakespeare, as he would readily admit. ANyone taking on such work as the sonnets is facing a mountain to climb, but you can't help but admire the man's desire, ambition, confidence and at the same time, if you hear how he speaks of the project, humility. Shakespeare only ever gave one explicit stage direction as to how his work was to be performed, when Hamlet instructs the Player King. Aside from that, he seemd content to let his players get on with it. Now Rufus is one.
