Route 66 and No End: Further Fortunes of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 66

• Authors: Manfred Pfister
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

At the SHINE-conference in Murcia in 1999 I claimed that sonnet 66 has been largely disregarded by Anglo-American critics whereas, in continental Europe, it has been frequently used as a medium of protest in crucial political situations. In the light of more recent findings I will revise this claim and draw attention to English poets and novelists from the Romantic period to Modernism reworking or working with the sonnet with a political thrust

Keywords

EN

sonnet 66; rewriting; satire; literary reception

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2010
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 39-50

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Manfred Pfister

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10318-012-0007-5