ENGL 105A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Edmund Spenser, Earl Of Wessex, Matteo Bandello
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Lecture 2-21 romeo and juliet: from lyric to drama: romeo and juliet story, autobiographical story- from his experiences in the theater, shakespeare in love - movie. Sir philip sidney, astrophil and stella: written in 1580"s printed 1591. Shakespeare"s sonnets; 1590"s: personal emotional expression: dramatized as the speaker is struggling with conflicting emotions= love, desire, despair, hope, fear, english miniature portraits symbolized loved lockets necklace- picture inside of it of lover. Presented as gifts, which symbolized a gift of yourself: sonnets were also presented as gifts: circulated in written texts (manuscripts) Secret expressions of the writers themselves: shakespeare"s sonnets were used as gifts (to young men, from sonnets to tragedy, perfect match story about love with the merchant of venice (workmen"s play: thisbe and. Pyramus: between them speak a sonnet- romeo and juliet sonnet tradition is everywhere in this play the epilogue spoken by the prince glooming peace some shall be pardoned .