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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Shakespeare's Sonnets"”.
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Variations on a Sonnet: A Play and Accompanying Analysis
… first began considering writing a play based on Shakespeare's sonnets, I toyed with the idea of dramatizing the poet's life as it is revealed in the sonnets. I had read the sonnets and imagined that it would not be terribly difficult to set some of them to prose scenes in which the amorphous …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
Literature of the earlier seventeenth century--Shakespeare's sonnets, the poetry of Donne and Herbert--is prized for its ambiguities and indeterminacies. But the rise of partisanship, the triumph of reason and neoclassicism that followed in the wake of civil war and revolution produced imaginative …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
From 1599 onwards, Shakespeare’s works began to appear in printed anthologies. Over the following years, a number of volumes included passages from his poems and plays, presenting them alongside similar excerpts by his rivals and contemporaries. The practices of reading and commonplacing that lie …