Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet

Innes, Paul

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“…9 Paul Innes, on the other hand, posits that what is important about the legal vocabulary in sonnets 35 and 49 is the way it underlines a drastic difference in social rank between the speaker and the young man. 10 Alternatively, one might choose to focus on a rhetorical characteristic of the sonnets which accommodates the legal motifs but is not legal per se. Stephen Booth takes this approach when he identifies sonnet 35 as "a variation of Shakespeare's habits of damning with fulsome praise .…”

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Hospitable Justice: Law and Selfhood in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Curran

2011

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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This article is concerned with the uses to which Shakespeare put legal subject matter. I focus on three sonnets in which the speaker acknowledges himself as the victim of a crime committed by the young man, but pledges to testify against himself on the young man's behalf. This strange justice, I argue, belongs to the philosophical tradition of hospitality, exemplified in a range of writings from St. Paul's Epistles to work by Derrida and Lévinas. Returning Shakespeare's sonnets to this strand of intellectual history equips us with a set of concepts ideally suited to making sense of the way Shakespeare uses law to reflect upon the nature of selfhood.This article is concerned with the uses to which Shakespeare put legal subject matter and with the related question of what it means for a piece of writing by Shakespeare to be characterized as "legal." I focus on three sonnets -35, 49, and 88 -which have in common a peculiar legal conceit. In all three, the speaker acknowledges himself as the victim of a crime committed by the young man, but pledges to testify against himself on the young man's behalf. This role reversal connects to no known legal principle or procedure in Shakespeare's time. To read sonnets 35, 49, and 88 as legal, then, requires that we depart from the critical orthodoxies of Shakespeare studies and embrace a wider range of philosophical and theological understandings of law and justice than are afforded by early modern legal history. Specifically, I shall argue that the justice presented in sonnets 35, 49, and 88 belongs to the philosophical tradition

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Hospitable Justice: Law and Selfhood in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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2011

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G riffin, B artholomew

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2017

The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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Bartholomew Griffin ( fl . 1596) was the author of one volume of verse, Fidessa, more chaste then kinde (1596), a sequence of 62 sonnets. Critical interest in Griffin is usually limited to the presence of some of his sonnets in the miscellany The passionate pilgrime (1599) attributed on its title page to ‘W. Shakespeare’, particularly ‘Venus, and young Adonis sitting by her’. Otherwise Griffin's verse is often dismissed as derivative and without significant merit, yet it serves as a representative example of the sixteenth‐century practice of poetic imitation.

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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

Schalkwyk

2002

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David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases this distinction on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. In a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays, Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire, both in the published poems and on the stage and in the context of the early modern period. In a provocative discussion of the question of proper names and naming events in the sonnets and plays, the book seeks to reopen the question of the autobiographical nature of Shakespeare's sonnets.

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Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet

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Hospitable Justice: Law and Selfhood in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Hospitable Justice: Law and Selfhood in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

G riffin, B artholomew

Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

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