Sonnets (Vol. 51) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Bayley, John. "Who Was the 'Man Right Fair' of the Sonnets?" TLS, No. 3748 (January 4, 1974): 15.

Examines the theme, tone, and wordplay of sonnets 40-43, and puts them in context with the "Dark Lady" sonnets.

Burnham, Michelle. "'dark Lady and Fair Man': The Love Triangle in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Ulysses" Studies in the Novel 22, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 43-56.

Traces the influence of Shakespeare's sonnets on James Joyce's characterization of Molly Bloom, Leopold Bloom, and Blazes Boylan in his novel Ulysses.

de Grazia, Margreta. "The Motive for Interiority: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Hamlet." Style 23, No. 3 (Fall 1989):430-444.

Argues that the identification of Shakespeare with the speaker in his sonnets and with his character, Hamlet, is a product of eighteenth-century critical and editorial...

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