Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet
Barbara Everett: The Sonnets, 8 May 2008
“... to throw light on darkness, but a scholarly falling back on convention may simplify at too high a price, imposing a shape rather than finding a meaning. And this imposed shape may damage or obscure the truth of what we have, whose actual character will contain a certain uncertainty – an uncertainty that could explain Shakespeare’s own unwish to ... ”