Author: EDITOR BY WALTER THOMSON
Title: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare & Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton. Together with a LoverS Complaint and the Phoenix & Turtle
Description: Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1938, First Edition. Cloth , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 199pp with index. Dedication to Miranda Harrison Hughes. The Preface states..The main purpose of this monograph is; To express strong and earnest expostulation against the allegation that Shakespeare in his Sonnets or elsewhere made confession of moral perversity: To point out the injustice done to Shakespeare by reading the 20th Sonnet in the present day meaning of the words instead of in the significance of Elizabethan parlance, thus giving the start to the homosexual fallacy; To expose the hoax perpetuated by Oscar Wilde and Samual Butler about the 'beautiful boy actor, Willie Hughes'... A good copy with a few slight marks to covers, corners a little soft. No inscriptions, a very few spots of foxing to endpapers. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Poetry


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