Rhymes in Shakespeare's sonnets: Evidence of date of composition

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Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-219

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 65849328695     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/46-2-213     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Elizabethan Sonnet Themes and the Dating of Shakespeare's 'Sonnets' (Lund, 1962), 7
2. 'When Did Shakespeare Write Sonnets 1609?', Studies in Philology, lxxxviii (1991), 69-109
3. MacD. P. Jackson, 'Vocabulary and Chronology: The Case of Shakespeare's Sonnets', forthcoming in RES
4. Like Hieatt, Hieatt, and Prescott, I dated individual plays according to the chronology in G. Blakemore Evans's The Riverside Shakespeare (Boston, 1974), 47-56
5. MacD. P. Jackson, 'Rhyming in Pericles: More Evidence for Dual Authorship', Studies in Bibliography, xxxxvi (1993), 239-249
6. For some of the difficulties in using Kökeritz's index, see 'Rhyming in Pericles', 242-244 As an example of the index's imperfections, Kokeritz accidentally omits trulhl youth, which occurs six times in the Sonnets; he does record the rhyme under youth/truth, but without any references
7. 'Vocabulary and Chronology', forthcoming in RES
8. 'When Did Shakespeare Write Sonnets 1609?', 92
9. Karl Wentersdorf, 'Shakespearian Chronology and the Metrical Tests', in Shakespeare-Studien: Festschrift fur Heinrich Mutschmann, ed. Walther Fischer and Karl Wentersdorf (Marburg, 1951)
10. See especially Eliot Slater, The Problem of The Reign of King Edward III': A Statistical Approach (Cambridge, 1988)
11. The case made by Kenneth Muir and myself in the 1960s has been consolidated by Eliot Slater, 'Shakespeare: Word Links between Poems and Plays', N & Q, ccxx (1975), 157-163
12. and A. K. Hieatt, T. G. Bishop, and E. A. Nicholson, 'Shakespeare's Rare Word: "Lover's Complaint", Cymbeline, and Sonnets', N & Q, ccxxxii (1987), 219-225 The seventeenth-century composition of A Lover's Complaint is accepted by recent editors of the Sonnets, such as John Kerrigan (Harmondsworth, 1986
13. and by John Roe in his edition of The Poems (Cambridge, 1992)