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Mistress Davenant, the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Mistress Davenant the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's Sonnets Author:Arthur Acheson Subtitle: Demonstrating the Identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets and the Authorship and Satirical Intention of Willobie His Avisa. With a Reprint of Willobie His Avisa (in Part), Penelope's Complaint, an Elegie, Constant Susanna, Queen Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe, the Shepherd's Slumber, and Sundry Other Poems by the Same Author General Books ... more »publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: B. Quaritch Subjects: Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III Analysis of the Sequential Order of the Sonnets in Thorpe's publication of i6op THE earliest record we possess of Sonnets by Shakespeare is in the year 1598, when Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia, mentions Shakespeare, and refers to "his sugred Sonnets among his private friends." In the following year, two of the Sonnets, those numbered 138 and 144, appeared in a somewhat garbled form in a collection of poems by various hands -- but all attributed to Shakespeare -- published by William Jaggard under the title of The Passionate Pilgrim. We have no further record of Sonnets by Shakespeare until the year 1609, when the whole collection as we now know them and a poem entitled A Lover's Complaint, were published by Thomas Thorpe, with the following title page: SHAKE-SPEARES | Sonnets. | Never before Imprinted. | At London | By G. ELD for T. T. and are | to be solde by William Aspley. | 1609. i This edition was issued by Thorpe with the following dedication, evidently of his own making. TO . THE . ONLTE . BEGETTER . OF . THESE . ISSUING . SONNETS . I0t. W. H. . ALL . HAPPINESSE . AND . THAT . ETERN1TIE . PROMISED BY GOT . EVER-LIVING . POET WISHETH . THE ...« less