1st Edition

Shakespeare’s Sugared Sonnets

By Katharine M. Wilson Copyright 1974
382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

In the course of some research into the musical element in English poetry, Dr Wilson read the work of the Elizabethan sonneteers chronologically and was struck by a suspicion that Shakespeare’s sonnets were parodies. Later she carried out a more thorough investigation, and this book, originally published in 1974, is the product: her early impressions had been justified beyond all expectation.... Read more

1. Introductory  (i) The Sonnet Texture  (ii) English Sonneteers  2. The Sonnet in Shakespeare’s Plays  3. The Dark Lady  4. The Man Friend  5. Postscripts  (i) Thorpe’s Dedication  (ii) Gulling Sonnets  (iii) The Date  (iv) Shakespeare Not Homosexual.  Notes.  Index.

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Katharine M. Wilson