Testimony of the Sonnets As to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays And Poems
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Having statedthat when she swears she is true he knows she lies, he adopts theconceit of asserting that he is not old, as an equivalent to herobvious falsehood in saying that she is not unjust. This is one oftwenty-six Sonnets relating to his mistress and her desertion of himfor his friend. In Sonnets XL. , XLI. , and XLII. He complains to hisfriend of the same wrong. The fact that the poet found a subject for his verse in such anoccurrence has been much commented on. Poetic fancy would hardly ...havechosen such a theme, and these Sonnets seem to be certainly based onan actual occurrence. And if so, certainly we may construe them veryliterally; and read literally they certainly appear to be an old man'slament at having been superseded by a younger though much loved rival. William Shakespeare was a prosperous, a very successful man. In twentyyears he accumulated property which made him a rich man, --yielding ayearly income of $5000, equivalent to $25, 000 dollars at the presenttime. He was an actor publicly accredited as a man of amorousgallantries[16]; he married at eighteen, apparently in haste, and lessthan six months before the birth of a child.
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