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Bromwich dates the sonnets roughly to the Romeo and Juliet period and contrasts their ornate lyric form with the plainer dramatic style Shakespeare later reaches in Macbeth.
He says the sonnets show Shakespeare deeply impressed by aristocratic posture and experience, especially around Southampton, while also remaining wary of aristocratic self-deception and social manipulation.
Bromwich treats the sonnets as partly personal, saying they reveal Shakespeare's erotic intensity, attachment, suspicion, and jealousy, but only from within a post-Petrarchan genre that already shapes what can be said.
"in his playstuffs the sonnets are very uh they're written a good deal before they're written around the same a little bit about the..."
"...status and sometimes stature that they held so I mean the sonnets tell you something about his um his attitude toward a lot of..."
"...naturalism view when he's writing his play for example does the sonnets reflect more about what he really believed"
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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