Sonnet 35 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1609
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Friendship, England or English people, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
The Poem
Sonnet 35, “No more be griev’d at that which thou hast done,” is written to a young man, the poet’s friend and nominal addressee or auditor of sonnets 1 through 126, by far the largest section of Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence. The friend presumably is the “Mr. W. H.” of the inscribed dedication of Thomas Thorpe’s 1609 printing of the sonnets. This mysterious figure’s identity has never been incontrovertibly established, although the scholarly consensus has focused on two candidates: Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton (1573-1624), and William...
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