Francis Meres and the cultural contexts of Shakespeare's rival poet Sonnets

Review of English Studies

Volumn 56, Issue 224, 2005, Pages 224-246

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1093/res/hgi050     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. The phrase 'a reality prior to the poem' is that of the major New Zealand poet and critic Allen Curnow in Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935 - 1984, ed. P. Simpson (Auckland, 1987), 172
2. As You Like It, III. iii. 16-17
3. See MacD. P. Jackson,'Aspects of Organisation in Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)' Parergon, 17 (1999), 109-34, esp. 126-8
4. H. Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Cambridge, Mass., 1997), 377-8
5. The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, ed. J. Kerrigan (Harmondsworth, 1986), 282
6. and P. Ramsey, The Fickle Glass: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets (New York, 1979), 32-41
7. J. Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare (London, 1997), 101-32
8. H. Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (New York, 1973)
9. As You Like It, ed. R. Knowles, New Variorum (New York, 1977), 188-90
10. J. Bakeless, Christopher Marlowe (London, 1938), 297
11. and to Chapman, The Iliads of Homer, ed. R. Hooper, 2nd edn. (London, 1865), but I have modernized Bartlett's spelling and punctuation
12. E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1930), ii. 218 (modernized)
13. Poems, ed. Bartlett, 132
14. The Shadow of the Night: 'Hymnus in Noctem', 11. 376-7 (ibid.)
15. E. A. Strathman, 'The Textual Evidence for "The School of Night"' Modern Language Notes, 56 (1951), 176-86
16. John Middleton Murry, as quoted in Sonnets, ed. Rollins, ii. 287
17. Sonnets, ed. Dover Wilson, 179
18. Nicholl, Reckoning, 73
19. Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare, 123
20. As Bate says, 'Metaphorically... Shakespeare was the rival who killed Marlowe' (p. 105)
21. In William Shaksperes Small Latine & Lesse Greeke, 2 vols. (Urbana, Ill, 1944)
22. Sir John Beaumont, 'To the memory of him who can never be forgotten, Master Benjamin Jonson', in D. H. Craig (ed.), Benjamin Jonson: The Critical Heritage 1599-1798 (London and New York, 1990), 188
23. Chambers, William Shakespeare, ii. 245 (modernized)
24. Bednarz, Poets' War, believes that 'The dialogue Fuller imagined as personal repartee can be traced back to this [Shakespeare's] series of theatrical responses to Every Man Out, Cynthia's Revels, and Poetaster in As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet' (p. 13)
25. The point about a playbill was well made by Frank O'Connor (Michael O'Donovan) in Shakespeare's Progress (New York, 1961), 79-81
26. Chambers, William Shakespeare, i. 270
27. E. Schafer, 'The Date of The Merry Wives of Windsor', Notes and Queries, 136 (1991), 57-60
28. McDonald, Shakespeare & Jonson, accepting the early date, considers Merry Wives in connection with Every Man In (pp. 31-55)
29. The Merry Wives of Windsor, ed. W. Green (New York, 1965), p. xxiv
30. Chambers, William Shakespeare, i. 397-8, ii. 210
31. MacD. P. Jackson,' "But with just cause": julius Caesar, III. i. 47'
32. Notes and Queries, 246 (2001), 282-4
33. Bednarz, Poets' War, 3
34. The year 1600 saw the sudden appearance of three anthologies of poems and snippets by most of the English writers named by Meres: England's Parnassus, England's Helicon, and Belvedere. Anthologies are notorious for provoking competitiveness among poets, but all the Rival Poet sonnets may already have been written by 1600
35. M. Drabble (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th edn. (Oxford, 1985), 928