Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Very tenderly, Elizabeth read, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Philip Sidney's beautiful sonnet which begins: My truelove hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given...
...opening night, Monette at first forced his rakishness and wit but after a fine soliloquy following the sonnet scene, his roguish skepticism seemed more natural. Miss Friend's controlled humor complemented her royal bearing. Rittenhouse looked nice...
...filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry VI, Part II, Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony...
...holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue that the most durable building is a gallows because it "outlives a thousand tenants...
Begetter Guessed. Into this mare's nest Rowse has stalked, offering his services, as he puts it with marvelous false humility, as a "mere historian." For anyone acquainted with Elizabethan history, he reports, it is all "quite simple." Beyond all doubt, the sonnets are to Southampton. W. H. was, clearly, William Harvey, Southampton's stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because...