William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream”
There are three sets of characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: the Athenians contending over love, the Athenian tradesmen putting on a production of Pyr...
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Viola to Orsino, Act V of “Twelfth Night,” lines 2471-4
I. Something about love actually can be tender: And all those sayings will I overswear; And those swearings keep as true in soul As doth that orbed continent th...
“Remembrance of Things Past” and the Problem of Order In Memory: On Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30 Shakespeare When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with ol...
Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
The earlier discussion of Sonnet 73 A suggestion of Helen Vendler’s regarding Sonnet 116 has made me rethink what I said earlier about 73. In 116, Vendler...
"That Time of Year," Indeed: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 as an Introduction to New Criticism
Sonnet 73 Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Bare ...