Only Begotten Sonnets

A Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Sonnet Sequence, which Integrates the Dark Lady Sonnets Into an Earlier Position in the Sequence and Discerns a Single Tenor Throughout and a Single Addressee

• Author(s): S. C. Campbell,
• Publisher: Bell and Hyman
• Pages: 241
• ISBN_10: 0713502134
  ISBN_13: 9780713502138
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... A radical yet careful reconsideration leads the author to a small but far-reaching rearrangement of the Quarto ordering. Many have tried to find the original order, but have tended to use hare-brained codes, or massive reshuffling, and the result makes no better sense than the quarto ordering. S.C. Campbell assumes (giving good reason for so doing) that only a few repositionings are necessary, and in sets rather than in individual sonnets. -- from book jacket.