A Note on Sonnet 38

Author / Editor
Bawcutt, Priscilla.

Title
A Note on Sonnet 38

Published
Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (1984): 426-32.

Description
Suggests that the "cluster of ideas" that conclude Shakespeare's Sonnet 38 are a version of the "topos of supplication" that Bawcutt traces back to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," citing mediating examples in TC (1.15-21), KnT (2405-6), and Gavin Douglas's "Eneados" (1 Prol 51-2).

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations
Style and Versification