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...what if we've actually been tracking the wrong Englishman? What if the real Shakespeare had led another life, one tingling with clear parallels to his sonnets and plays? (See chart.) What if he were really a nobleman, an earl who could trace his roots to a time before William the Conqueror? And what if, unlike the man from Stratford-upon-Avon, we had an undeniable record of his education--a degree from Oxford University and a solid grounding in the law that would explain the plenitude of Tudor legalese in the plays? Again, unlike the Stratford man, this nobleman...
...Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
Blake A. Gleason: A Shakespearean Sonnet...
...wowed by your fine-tuned commentary which you duly gleaned from your Core class last year. Instead, the grads will parry by demonstrating how a particular verse in Act IV differs in the First Folio, which incidentally resembles the Middle English root of the verb as it appears in Sonnet Number 42. So what is the seminar-jocks' secret? They did the reading--and then some...
...been up to Oscar Wilde, there would be no auction this week of the private property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or any such event. Writing a sonnet in 1895, "On the Sale by Auction" of John Keats' love letters to Fanny Brawne, Wilde compared the "brawlers of the auction mart" to the Roman soldiers who tossed dice for the garments of Jesus...