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
Conclusion
But Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade, 1998–2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2019
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
Summary
The conclusion focuses on Sonnet 18 and compares its significance in Shakespeare in Love (the film) and Shakespeare in Love (the play). It argues that this Sonnet has transcended the sequence, and has come to signify the Sonnets as a whole. Whilst this can be a reactionary decision, which ignores the overt homoeroticism of the sequence, it can also be a means of making the Sonnets more accessible by offering multiple different appropriations, emphasising the polyvocality of the individual Sonnet.
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- The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets , pp. 243 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019