Dec 23, 2009

Sonnet 19 | What Do I Read Next?

Shakespeare’s plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, were both written at about the same time as the sonnets, and they both deal with the many different aspects, both positive and negative, of romantic love. Romeo and Juliet begins with a sonnet (“Two households, both alike in dignity”) and when the lovers meet their first dialogue forms a sonnet (“If I profane with my unworthiest hand”).
Later writers have used the sonnet form to explore subjects other...