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Shakespeare's Sonnets

In Our Time: Culture

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Shakespeare's Sonets

Hanna corpe: Is there anything specific that distinguishes e shakespeare's sonets from those of his predecessors and contemporaries? Hanna Corpe: Mainly, he was better. He wasn't that experimentaly, but he extended the sonnet through a kind of brilliance of fashion. But in some sense, he played straight to the subject that he inherited from the italiansn from sydney and spenserta that of love. And used it to write a bit much more than love, about time and age and history and metaphysicsund they don't all come off,. i think that's the point.

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