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Oxford Shakespeare Topics Shakespeare’s Sonnets oxford shakespeare topics Publishedandforthcomingtitlesinclude: LawrenceDanson,Shakespeare’sDramaticGenres PaulEdmondsonandStanleyWells,Shakespeare’sSonnets GabrielEgan,ShakespeareandMarx AndrewGurrandMarikoIchikawa,StaginginShakespeare’sTheatres PeterHolland,ShakespeareandFilm JillL.Levenson,ShakespeareandTwentieth-CenturyDrama AniaLoomba,ShakespeareandRace RussMcDonald,ShakespeareandtheArtsofLanguage StevenMarx,ShakespeareandtheBible RobertS.Miola,Shakespeare’sReading PhyllisRackin,ShakespeareandWomen BruceR.Smith,ShakespeareandMasculinity ZdeneˇkStr˘´ıbrny´,ShakespeareandEasternEurope MichaelTaylor,ShakespeareCriticismintheTwentiethCentury StanleyWells,ed.,ShakespeareintheTheatre:AnAnthologyofCriticism MartinWiggins,ShakespeareandtheDramaofhisTime Oxford Shakespeare Topics generaleditors:peterhollandandstanleywells Shakespeare’s Sonnets PAUL EDMONDSON AND STANLEY WELLS 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship,andeducationby publishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland Bangkok BuenosAires CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜oPaulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork (cid:1)PaulEdmondsonandStanleyWells2004 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2004 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN0-19-925610-1 ISBN0-19-925611-x(pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 TypesetbyKolamInformationServicesPvt.Ltd,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd. King’sLynn,Norfolk TO. OUR. FRIENDS. OF. THE. SHAKESPEARE.BIRTHPLACE.TRUST. AND. THE. SHAKESPEARE.INSTITUTE. ALL. HAPPINESS. AND. THAT. ETERNITY. PROMISED. BY. OUR. EVER-LIVING.POET. WISH. THE. WELL-WISHING. ADVENTURERS.IN.SETTING. FORTH. THESE.ENSUING. CHAPTERS. PME(cid:1)SWW Acknowledgements Weshouldliketorecordourgratitudeto:DrJamesBinns,forinfor- mationrelatingtotheGreekAnthologyandtoPrudentius;Professor Julia Briggs; Signor Lucca Carpaccio, for assistance with Italian sources; Alec Cobbe; David Crane; Professor Katherine Duncan- Jones,forthekindloanofanunpublishedpaperontheatricaladapta- tions of the Sonnets and for information on Thomas Thorpe; Dr LornaFlint,forassistancewithrhymeschemesinShakespeare’splays; Rachel Gatiss; Professor Christa Jahnson; MacDonald P. Jackson; Professor Russell Jackson; Dr Paul Prescott; Andrew Rawle, for the loanofvideos;DrPeterJ.Smith;WilliamSutton;JudithWardman; and the librarians of the Shakespeare Centre and the Shakespeare Institute,Stratford-upon-Avon,formanycourtesies.ProfessorPeter Holland,asjointGeneralEditoroftheseries,hasmademanyinvalu- ablesuggestions. Readers may welcome a note about the method of collaboration undertakenbytheauthors.PaulEdmondsonsuggestedtheideaand, afterpreliminarytalks,eachauthorindependentlydraftedaproposal. ThesewerereWnedfollowingfurtherdiscussionbetweentheauthors and in the light of comments received from Peter Holland (as joint GeneralEditoroftheseries)andfromreadersappointedbythePress. TheWnalproposalindicatedwhichoftheauthorswouldbeprimarily responsible for which chapter, and in some cases that authorship of single chapters would be shared. Aswriting proceeded, each author scrutinized what the other had written, and revised his work in the lightofsubsequentdiscussion.Eachauthorreadsuccessivedrafts,and againrevisionswerediscussedandagreed.WebelievetheWnalworkto betheresultofanequalandhappycollaborationinwhichneitherofus feltanyneedtocompromisehisownopinionsinfavouroftheother’s. Chapter2,‘TheHistoryandEmergenceoftheSonnetasaLiterary Form’,drawsuponchapter2,‘TheOriginalityofShakespeare’sSon- nets’, in Stanley Wells’s Looking for Sex in Shakespeare (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress,2004). PME;SW Contents ListofIllustrations viii Abbreviations ix ANoteonTexts xi Preface xiii PartI 1. TheEarlyPublicationoftheSonnets 3 2. TheHistoryandEmergenceoftheSonnet asaLiteraryForm 13 3. TheSonnetsinRelationtoShakespeare’sLife 22 4. TheFormofShakespeare’sSonnets 28 5. TheArtistryofShakespeare’sSonnets 47 6. ConcernsoftheSonnets 63 7. TheSonnetsasTheatre 82 8. ThePlaceof ‘ALover’sComplaint’ 105 PartII 9. TheLaterPublicationoftheSonnets 117 10. TheCriticalReputationoftheSonnets 131 11. TheSonnetsandLaterWriters 145 12. TheSonnetsinPerformance 166 Notes 177 FurtherReading 182 Index 187 List of Illustrations 1. AnengravingbyPeterReddickfortheFolioSociety’s editionof1989 xii 2. EdwardAlleyn’snoterecordinghispurchaseofacopy oftheFirstQuartoinJune1609 5 3. Thetitle-pageofthe1609Quarto 6 4. Thededicationofthe1609Quarto 8 5. Sonnet129asprintedinthe1609Quarto 10 6. Sonnet126asprintedinthe1609Quarto 29 7. Sonnet136asprintedinthe1609Quarto 44 8. Sonnet20asprintedinthe1609Quarto 73 9. AportraitoftheyoungHenryWriothesley,third EarlofSouthampton,believedforcenturiesto depictawoman,LadyNorton 76 10. Thefirstknownillustrationof ‘ALover’sComplaint’, fromJohnBell’s1774multi-volumeeditionof thecompleteworks. 106 11. AnengravingbySimonBrettfortheFolio Society’seditionof1989 139 Reproductionisbykindpermissionofthefollowing:Figs.1and11,the Folio Society; Fig. 2, Dulwich College; Figs. 3-8, the Bodleian Library,Oxford;Fig.9,theBridgemanArtLibrary;Fig.10,Private Collection. Abbreviations BarnWeld Richard BarnWeld, The Complete Poems, ed. George Klawitter (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UniversityPress,1990) Booth,Essay StephenBooth,AnEssayonShakespeare’sSonnets (NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1969) Booth,Sonnets Shakespeare’sSonnets,editedwithanalyticalcom- mentary by Stephen Booth (New Haven: Yale UniversityPress,1977) Burrow The Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Colin Burrow, The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress,2002;repr.withcorrec- tions,2003) Duncan-Jones Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ed. Katherine Duncan- Jones, The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd ser. (London:ThomasNelson,1997) Hammond, PaulHammond,FiguringSexbetweenMenfrom FiguringSex Shakespeare to Rochester (Oxford: Clarendon Press,2002) Hammond,Love Paul Hammond, Love between Men in English betweenMen Literature(Basingstoke:Macmillan,1996) Kerrigan The Sonnets and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’, ed. John Kerrigan, New Penguin Shakespeare (Har- mondsworth:PenguinBooks,1986) Lee ElizabethanSonnets,Arber’sEnglishGarner,ed. with introd. by Sidney Lee, 2 vols. (London, 1904;repr.NewYork:CooperSquarePublishers Inc.,1964) Malone Edmond Malone, Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare’sPlayspublishedin1778(1780) Rollins The Sonnets, ed. Hyder E. Rollins, New Vari- orum Shakespeare, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Lip- pincott,1944)

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