The language of Shakespeare's Sonnets, like that of poetry in general, is both highly compressed and highly structured. While most often discussed in terms of its images and its metrical and other formal structures, the language of the Sonnets, like that
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The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.
Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances and of essays on Shakespeare's plays and on the editing of the plays.
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at King's College and the Graduate School of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare's plays and was Associate Editor of the annual Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England from 1980 to 1989.
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Later in the poem, the contrast between love and lust, the burden of Adonis' rebuttal of Venus' plea, reminds one of the same theme that appears from time to time in the plays, as early as Romeo and Juliet and later in Measure for Measure: Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Later in the poem, the contrast between love and lust, the burden of Adonis' rebuttal of Venus' plea, reminds one of the same theme that appears from time to time in the plays, as early as Romeo and Juliet and later in Measure for Measure: Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thy glass, thy worth, passionate pilgrim, tender spring, rival poet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, William Shakespeare, First Folio, The Passionate Pilgrim, Choice of Emblems, Queen Elizabeth, King Lear, Sir Edmund Chambers, John Shakespeare, King's Men, Lord Admiral's Men, New Haven, New Place, United States New!
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- Venus and Adonis. by William Shakespeare on 20 pages
- The Rape of Lucrece (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- A Choice of Emblems by Geffrey Whitney on 5 pages
- The Narrative Poems (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 3, page 33, and page 49
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