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  title info:
    title: Sonnets to a young man
  title info:
    title: Sonnets. Selections
  name:
    name part: Shakespeare, William
    name part: 1564-1616
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hale, Keith
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Sonnets.
  genre: Gay poetry.
  genre: Love poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 76 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, almost anyone in England who knew anything about Shakespeare knew that he had written his famous love sonnets to a beautiful adolescent male who was fifteen when the first sonnet was written. The debate was not about what gender the poems addressed but what specific young man had been the object of Shakespeare's affection. Read in sequence, the sonnets tell a story. Shakespeare was instructed by his patron to try to get the patron's son to marry and pass along his lineage and beauty. The first seventeen sonnets are therefore called the procreation sonnets because this is precisely Shakespeare's message to the boy. Beginning with Sonnet 18, however, we see an abrupt turn: Shakespeare has clearly fallen in love with the fifteen-year-old. Furthermore-and this cannot have pleased his patron-Shakespeare suggests there is really no need for the boy to marry and procreate in order to live beyond his time, for Shakespeare is immortalizing him for eternity through the sonnets.
  note: by William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Keith Hale.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  subject:
    topic: Young gay men
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Sonnets, English
    temporal: 17th century
  identifier: 9781494389123
  identifier: 1494389126
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 221103
    record change date: 20221103162214.2
    record identifier: in00004598977
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng