Shakespeare's sonnets: Rhyme and reason in the dark lady series

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Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-222

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 60949772538     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/46.2.219     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. In entitling the sequence Shakespeare's Sonnets I follow Katherine Duncan-Jones in 'What Are Shakespeare's Sonnets Called?', Essays in Criticism, xlvii (1997), 1-12
2. Kenneth Muir, 'A Lover's Complaint: A Reconsideration', in Shakespeare 1564-1964: A Collection of Modern Essays by Various Hands, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Providence, 1964), 154-66
3. MacD. P. Jackson, Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint: Its Date and Authenticity (Aucklanda, 1965)
4. Evidence that the inclusion of'A Lover's Complaint' in the 1609 Quarto continues a convention of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence as a genre is summarized in the editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets by John Kerrigan (Harmondsworth, 1986), 12-15, 66
5. Katherine Duncan-Jones, 'Was the 1609 Shakes-peare's Sonnets Really Unauthorized?', Review of English Studies, xxxiv(1983), 151-171
6. Denys Bray, The Original Order of Shakespeare's Sonnets (London, 1925
7. and Shakespeare's Sonnet-Sequence (London, 1938). My references are to the first of these publications
8. Sonnets by William Shakespeare, ed. M. R. Ridley (London, 1934)
9. Brents Stirling, The Shakespeare Sonnet Order: Poems and Groups (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), 17
10. J. W. Mackail, The Approach to Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), 116
11. However, the prevailing opinion has been countered by two strong defences of the order of the Dark Lady sonnets: Philip Edwards, Shakespeare and the Confines of Art (London, 1968), 17-31
12. Michael J. B. Allen, 'Shakespeare's Man Descending a Staircase: Sonnets 126 to 154', Shakespeare Survey, xxxi (1978), 127-138
13. Andrew Gurr, 'Shakespeare's First Poem: Sonnet 145', Essays in Criticism, xxi (1971), 221-226 Such rhymes as 'nothing' with 'a-doting' in Sonnet 20 confirm that the pun is a good one in Elizabethan pronunciation. Hattaway is a current variant of the name Hathaway
14. The suggestion about 'Anne' and 'And' was made by Stephen Booth in his edition, Shakespeare's Sonnets (New Haven, 1977), 501
15. Kerrigan (Penguin) is another editor who accepts that punning is intended. (Catherine Duncan-Jones (Arden) and G. Blakemore Evans, The Sonnets (Cambridge, 1996) are non-committal
16. Hallett Smith, The Tension of the Lyre: Poetry in Shakespeare's Sonnets (San Marino, California, 1981), 123
17. Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997), 22. Vendler is another who has found Gurr's conjecture 'a convincing one' (609)