Arts & LettersENGL-200A
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Desire, Disgust, and the Dark Lady
A study of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady sonnets: the anti-Petrarchan beauty of Sonnet 127, the anatomy of lust in 129, the parody of the blazon in 130, the puns on ‘Will,’ the two loves of 144, and the soul-and-body dialogue of 146.