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'In the old age black was not counted fair': Shakespeare's Sonnets: Interpretation as a Key to Chronology.

Statistical analyses of Shakespeare's vocabulary have suggested that the order of the sonnets in the 1609 edition does not reflect their chronological order of composition, and that the 'Dark Lady sonnets' might be placed among the earliest, thus predating the 'Fair Youth sonnets'. While sharing the...

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Published in:Critical Survey Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 96 - 112
Main Author: Stanco, Michele
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Spring2025
Subjects:
Sonnet
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Chronology
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Linguistics
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