Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 Is Not What It Seems

2022-05-18

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Roessner, Jane. “The Coherence and the Context of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 81, no. 3, 1982, pp. 331–46, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27709024.

Neely, Carol Thomas. “Detachment and Engagement in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 94, 116, and 129.” PMLA, vol. 92, no. 1, 1977, pp. 83–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/461416.

Landry, Hilton, "The Marriage Of True Minds: Truth and Error in Sonnet 116"

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Marotti, Arthur F. “‘Love Is Not Love’: Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences and the Social Order.” ELH, vol. 49, no. 2, 1982, pp. 396–428, https://doi.org/10.2307/2872989.

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