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Shakespeare’s acknowledgments to Marlowe
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64
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1593
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Titus Andronicus
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65
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1594, August
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The Merchant of Venice
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66
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Shylock and Roderigo Lopez
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68
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1594
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King John
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69
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1594, Dec.
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Comedy of Errors in Gray’s Inn Hall
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70
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Early plays doubtfully assigned to Shakespeare
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71
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Arden of Feversham (1592)
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71
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Edward III
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72
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Mucedorus
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72
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Faire Em (1592)
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73
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VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC
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1593, April
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Publication of Venus and Adonis
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74
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1594, May
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Publication of Lucrece
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76
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Enthusiastic reception of the poems
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78
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Shakespeare and Spenser
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79
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Patrons at Court
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81
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VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY
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The vogue of the Elizabethan sonnet
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83
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Shakespeare’s first experiments
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84
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1594
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Majority of his Shakespeare’s composed
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85
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Their literary value
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87
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Circulation in manuscript
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88
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Their piratical publication in 1609
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89
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A Lover’s Complaint
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91
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Thomas Thorpe and ‘Mr. W. H.’
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91
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The form of Shakespeare’s sonnets
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95
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Their want of continuity
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96
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The two ‘groups’
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96
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Main topics of the first ‘group’
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98
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Main topics of the second ‘group’
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99
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The order of the sonnets in the edition of 1640
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100
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Lack of genuine sentiment in Elizabethan sonnets
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100
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Their dependence on French and Italian models
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101
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Sonnetteers’ admissions of insincerity
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105
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Contemporary censure of sonnetteers’ false sentiment
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106
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Shakespeare’s
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