Books by Caroline Randall Williams
“This is by Caroline Randall Williams, a writer who resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She employs a different strategy, through speculating who the addressee, the ‘dark lady’, of the later sonnets might have been. Shakespeare’s poems describe a woman with dark features: black eyes, black hair, black eyebrows. Was the addressee a historical individual? A composite of multiple women? An entirely fictive figure? Among the many candidates for who that addressee might have been, the brothel co-owner named ‘Black Luce’ has been proposed by the scholar Duncan Salkeld. This woman might have been of African descent, and might have been someone that Shakespeare would have encountered in the 1590s. While Williams concedes that this candidate is but one of many conjectures, she got it into her head ‘that Shakespeare had a black lover, and that this woman was the subject of sonnets 127 to 154.'” Read more...
The best books on Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Scott Newstok, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Caroline Randall Williams were recommended
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Katherine Duncan-Jones & William Shakespeare -
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Helen Vendler & William Shakespeare -
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
by Paul Edmonson, Stanley Wells & William Shakespeare -
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The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Jane Kingsley-Smith -
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Nets
by Jen Bervin -
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Lucy Negro, Redux
by Caroline Randall Williams
The best books on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, recommended by Scott Newstok
The best books on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, recommended by Scott Newstok
The beauty of Shakespeare’s sonnets speaks to us down the centuries, their lines peaking out at us from the titles of famous books or enjoying outings at weddings or other romantic occasions. But they were not always regarded as perfectly-formed jewels, and the relationships they portray not as conventional as many of us presume. Here, Shakespeare scholar Scott Newstok talks us through books that help us learn more about Shakespeare’s sonnets, from the best introduction to the poems for students through to their afterlife and recent creative interpretations.
