Sonnets (Vol. 75) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Burrow, Colin. Introduction to The Complete Sonnets and Poems, by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow, pp. 1-158. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Discusses the date of composition and order of the sonnets, reviews their structural influences, and argues that they are a miscellaneous collection of themes and thoughts rather than an ordered sequence about particular relationships.
Freinkel, Lisa. “Willful Abuse: The Canker and the Rose.” In Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets, pp. 159-236. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Studies Shakespeare's use of catachresis—mixed, excessive metaphors—throughout the sonnets, and assesses the influence of Luther on Shakespeare's sonnets.
MacInnes, Ian. “Cheerful Girls and Willing Boys: Old and Young Bodies in Shakespeare's Sonnets.” Early Modern Literary...
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