Two Wooers and their Sonnets: On Poetic Forms in Romeo and Juliet

The article looks at the semiotics of the sonnet form used by Shakespeare in his tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Particular attention is paid to two sonnets, of Paris and of Romeo, in which different manners of courting are played out. The poetic “gift” from Romeo to Juliet, their shared sonnets, one comp...

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Main Author: Elena V. Haltrin-Khalturina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2017-09-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2017-2-3/Haltrin-Khalturina.pdf