Dating Shakespeare's sonnets: Some old evidence revisited

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Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-241

  Jackson, MacD P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1093/nq/490237     Document Type: Note

References (16)

1. MacD. P. Jackson, 'Vocabulary and Chronology: The Case of Shakespeare's Sonnets', Review of English Studies, n.s. lii (2001), 59-75
2. supports and modifies A. Kent Hieatt, Charles W. Hieatt, and Anne Lake Prescott, 'When Did Shakespeare Write Sonnets 1609?', Studies in Philology, lxxxviii (1991), 69-109
3. The findings of these two articles are, by and large, confirmed in MacD. P. Jackson, 'Rhymes in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Evidence of Date of Composition', N&Q, ccxliv (1999), 213-19
4. Eliot Slater, The Problem of 'The Reign of King Edward III': A Statistical Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
5. Most notable were the studies of Gregor Sarrazin, 'Wortechos bei Shakespeare', Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xxxiii (1897), 121-65
6. and Eliot Slater, 'Shakespeare Word Links between Poems and Plays', N&Q, ccxx (1975), 157-63
7. J. A. Fort, 'The Order and Chronology of Shakespeare's Sonnets', Review of English Studies, xxxiii (1933), 19-23
8. Reasons for regarding the three-year passage of time as conventional rather than biographical are summarized by Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.), Shakespeare's Sonnets (London: Thomas Nelson, 1997), 104
9. and G. Blakemore Evans (ed.), The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 212-13
10. The case for connecting Sonnet 107 with Queen Elizabeth's death and King James's peaceful succession in 1603 is convincingly restated by John Kerrigan (ed.), The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 313-19
11. Conrad (Isaac) published 'Die Sonett-Periode in Shakespeare's Leben', Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xix (1884), 176-264
12. The findings of both men are presented in a table in the New Variorum edition of H. E. Rollins, The Sonnets, 2 vols (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1944), II, 64-5; this includes figures derived from Davis's revised manuscript
13. See Gary Taylor, 'The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays', in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor with John Jowett and William Montgomery, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), 69-144
14. The Textual Companion dates All's Well That Ends Well 1604-5, but even this may be too early: see MacD. P. Jackson, 'Spurio and the Date of All's Well That Ends Well, N&Q, ccxlvi (2001), 298-9, and 'Pause Patterns in Shakespeare's Verse: Canon and Chronology' (forthcoming). Except where otherwise indicated, the present note uses Textual Companion dates
15. E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930), I, 270-1
16. Taylor, Textual Companion, 97