Final Project Pl The Context Of Shakespearean Sonnets
Final Project Plan: The Context of Shakespearean Sonnets Proposal It has been a widely controversial debate over the context of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Was part of the sonnets a dedicated to a gay lover, a rival poet, and a black woman? These questions remain up for academic debate due to Shakespeare’s sonnets having alterations that were made in the editing process of these sonnets—and more specifically, the lack of pronouns that leave the sonnets ambiguous. This paper will be observing the sonnets (sonnets: two, twenty, eight-six, one-hundred and thirty one, and one-hundred and forty one) closely in order to determine the true meaning behind the ambiguity of these sonnets and prove that the figures in question are indeed whom they are referring
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I will support the claims with a reading of “Sonnet 2,” by comparing the 1609 version of the text in comparison to the Oxford text in order to prove that the sonnets had been changed.
b. Referencing to:
i. The Adam Hook’s “The Book Trade,” which is about the process of publishing in the 1600s and how a manuscript was distributed. ii. Margreta de Grazia, “The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” this is regarding the timeline that de Grazia provided as per which editors were responsible for what changes during what time frames.
2. Sonnets 1 to 126 appear to be about a gay lover. However, due to the lack of pronouns, it is assumed that the pronouns were removed or altered from the sonnets.
a. I will support the claims with a reading of “Sonnet 20,” exemplifying how this young man that the sonnet is regarding, is indeed a gay lover.
b. Referring to:
i. Margreta de Grazia, “The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” this is regarding the queerness in Shakespeare’s sonnets and the questionings of why the sonnets were still published anyway. ii. Jonathan Gil., Harris ”Homosociality and the Sonnets: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,” is regarding the interpretation of male sexuality and the historical transformation’s (seventeenth to the nineteenth century) role in the
I will support the claims with a reading of “Sonnet 2,” by comparing the 1609 version of the text in comparison to the Oxford text in order to prove that the sonnets had been changed.
b. Referencing to:
i. The Adam Hook’s “The Book Trade,” which is about the process of publishing in the 1600s and how a manuscript was distributed. ii. Margreta de Grazia, “The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” this is regarding the timeline that de Grazia provided as per which editors were responsible for what changes during what time frames.
2. Sonnets 1 to 126 appear to be about a gay lover. However, due to the lack of pronouns, it is assumed that the pronouns were removed or altered from the sonnets.
a. I will support the claims with a reading of “Sonnet 20,” exemplifying how this young man that the sonnet is regarding, is indeed a gay lover.
b. Referring to:
i. Margreta de Grazia, “The Scandal of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” this is regarding the queerness in Shakespeare’s sonnets and the questionings of why the sonnets were still published anyway. ii. Jonathan Gil., Harris ”Homosociality and the Sonnets: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,” is regarding the interpretation of male sexuality and the historical transformation’s (seventeenth to the nineteenth century) role in the