Breaking the Conventions : Shakespeare, the Fair Young Man and the Dark Lady

The aim of this essay is to show how Shakespeare’s sonnets violated and reversed the conventional ideas in terms of beauty and idealisation. Furthermore, I will examine the way Shakespeare presented his beloved woman as an absolute opposite of the one created by Petrarch, and how he shifted all the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kulagin, Artyom
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska 2006
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2098