Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 2: "Comfort and Despair"
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A Review of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Most shakespeare sonnets are less the isolated expression of an eye than a social dialogue, albeit with only one speaker. As with any conversation or phone call, overheard, they make a demand on the interpreter to imagine who would say this to whom and in what situation. Out of these 154 sonnets, one can discern two basic groups or series, each of which is addressed toa ferent figure or person. The poems seem to reject a comparatively briefer affair, although torrid and passionate and full of ambivlent love, hate and lust.
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