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Shakespeare: The Poet

Shakespeare: The Poet. SHAKE-SPEARE’S SONNETS Published in 1609 Thomas Thorpe was the publisher Shakespeare did not give his approval Thorpe was “cashing-in” on Shakespeare. Before attempting sonnets, Shakespeare wrote two narrative poems: “ Venus and Adonis ” “ The Rape of Lucrece ”

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Shakespeare: The Poet

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  1. Shakespeare:The Poet

  2. SHAKE-SPEARE’S SONNETS • Published in 1609 • Thomas Thorpe was the publisher • Shakespeare did not give his approval • Thorpe was “cashing-in” on Shakespeare

  3. Before attempting sonnets, Shakespeare wrote two narrative poems: • “Venus and Adonis” • “The Rape of Lucrece” • Playwrights were not considered “serious” authors • Poets were considered refined and well-educated • The act of writing poems would have helped to improve Shakespeare’s image

  4. This poem is dedicated to… • Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton • Patron of Shakespeare • Venus and Adonis: respectful but not intimate; trying to gain favor • Lucrece: “The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end ... What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.”

  5. Sonnets • Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. • A sonnet is a 14 line lyric poem.

  6. This sonnet is for… • Sonnets 1-126: concern a young man, to “W.H.” • Nobleman • Patron • Sonnets 127-152: concern a “dark lady” • Sonnets 153-154: concern love and bathing

  7. Who is the dark lady? • Dark complexion • Spanish moor • Illegitimate daughter or an earl • Secretive lady • “Dark” forces – physical • Emilia Lanier • Fictional?

  8. The sonnets have been used a great deal to try and understand Shakespeare’s Life, and there have been many guesses as to how he lived.

  9. Basic themes in sonnets: • Young man should marry and have kids so that he can pass on his good looks. • Young man will never die, he will live on in Shakespeare’s poems. • Upset because his patron helped a rival poet

  10. Basic themes in sonnets: • Long absence from London • Mad at young man for seducing his lady • Obsessed with the Dark Lady • Hurt by the betrayal of lady and friend • Love passes quickly, time is an enemy Shakespeare would have been famous if he had only written the sonnets.

  11. Shakespearian Sonnet • English or Shakespearean sonnet, developed first by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey • Consists of three quatrains and a couplet--that is, it rhymes abab cdcd efef gg. • One pattern introduces an idea in the first quatrain, complicates it in the second, complicates it still further in the third, and resolves the whole thing in the final epigrammatic couplet.

  12. Petrarchan Sonnet • Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, developed first by Francesco Petrarch • Consists of an octave (or octet) and a sestet—it rhymes: abbaabba / abbacddc / abababab then xyzxyz / xyxyxy. • Projects and develops a subject in the octave, then executes a turn at the beginning of the sestet, the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave

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