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I was merely repeating in a general sense what everyone says.
OK. I was wrong to state such a sweeping generalization, many
professors obviously have different ideas, but what I meant was, the
the way SH is usually taught, the sonnets are viewed as distinct
from the plays in every way. And they are. This is from my shakespeare
edition. "The sonnets of Shakespeare suggest, perhaps, the most difficult
questions in Shakespearean criticism" ... "The young friend,
whom SH loved with a fond idolatry, was beautiful, clever, rich in the gifts
of fortune, and of high rank. The woman was of a stained character, false to
her husband, the reverse of beautiful, dark eyed, pale faced, a musician,
possesed of a strange power of attraction....
Now, no one here is talking about literary characters, they
are talking about real people who existed who Shakespeare wrote the
sonnets about. That alone puts them into a totally different category
than the plays and everything else, which is what I meant.
Posted by Bill Routhier on April 13, 1997 at 21:54:38
In Reply to "?" posted by Cloten on April 13, 1997 at 10:21:54
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