Book contents
- The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Loved When They Alteration Find, 1598–1622
- Chapter 2 Annals of All-Wasting Time, 1623–1708
- Chapter 3 One Thing to My Purpose Nothing, 1709–1816
- Chapter 4 As With Your Shadow I With These Did Play, 1817–1900
- Chapter 5 A Waste of Shame, 1901–1997
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Annals of All-Wasting Time, 1623–1708
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2019
- The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Loved When They Alteration Find, 1598–1622
- Chapter 2 Annals of All-Wasting Time, 1623–1708
- Chapter 3 One Thing to My Purpose Nothing, 1709–1816
- Chapter 4 As With Your Shadow I With These Did Play, 1817–1900
- Chapter 5 A Waste of Shame, 1901–1997
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The mid to late seventeenth century is usually considered as representing an almost total lack of Sonnet appreciation, often blamed on John Benson’s 1640 volume, Poems, which disrupted the sequence, interwove it with lyrics from The Passionate Pilgrim, and joined Sonnets together into larger units. This chapter explores how the Sonnets thrived in Caroline manuscripts (particularly Sonnets 2 and 106), and the ways in which Benson tried to harness this elite status for Cavalier readers, and make amends for the Sonnets’ omission from the First Folio. The chapter re-examines the ways in which Sir John Suckling and John Milton read the Sonnets, and argues for their sustained Royalist associations.
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- The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets , pp. 54 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019