Shakespeare's Work | Shakespeare's Dramatic Methods
Shakespeare was so thoroughly a dramatist that it is virtually impossible to disengage what is dramatic in his work from what is not. This is true even of so lyric a form as the sonnet. His Sonnets bristle with suggestive confrontation, and though their story—if indeed there is one—eludes us, we cannot refrain from tracing in the sequence of verses the drama of a strange triangle.
What is true of Shakespeare the dramatist is true of Shakespeare the poet. A wholeness of sensibility infuses his writing. Theatrical and even melodramatic as his situations are, they are couched in words...
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