Arguably the greatest of all the great Elizabethan sonnet-sequences, Shakespeare’s sonnets have inspired admiration, imitation, and speculation in readers and writers for over four centuries. This day course offers an opportunity to explore one of English literature’s most significant works. By close reading Shakespeare’s sonnets, we will chart the sequence’s multiple historical, intellectual, and biographical contexts, its relationship to the plays, and Shakespeare’s re-fashioning of the sonnet form and its traditions, as well as considering the sequence’s remarkably diverse legacies in subsequent poetry.
Tutor: Stephen Grace BA MA
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 08 March 2025
Time: 10am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £57
Location: University of York Campus, Classroom-based
