Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems

As has been said before, the Sonnets obviously have a common theme. They celebrate his friend, his beauty, his winning and lovable qualities, leading the poet to forgive and to...

was on the sunset side of life--probably fifty years of age or older, and so at least twenty years older than is indicated of his friend, except in the Sonnets now being conside...

Adopting the views which fix the later period as the date of the Sonnets, it seems practically certain that they were written as early as 1598,--though some of them may have bee...

The Sonnets certainly reveal their author in an attitude of appeal, more or less open and direct, for the love or favor of his friend. No fervor of compliment or protestation of...

In these pages I propose an examination and study of the Shakespearean Sonnets, for the purpose of ascertaining what information may be derived from them as to the authorship of...

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But _you_ shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with slutti...

The Shakespearean Sonnets are not a single or connected work like an ordinary play or poem. Their composition apparently extended over a considerable time, which may be fairly e...

The Sonnets were not written by Shakespeare, but it is very probable that he was the friend or patron around whom their poetry moves and to whom most of them are addressed.

They indicate that the friend or patron of the poet was a young man, and of about the age of Shakespeare; and that their author was past middle life, and considerably older than...