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Sonnets: Critical Essay by David Schalkwyk

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William Shakespeare
About 34 pages (10,087 words)
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SOURCE: “What May Words Do? The Performative of Praise in Shakespeare's Sonnets,” in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3, Fall, 1998, pp. 251-68.

In the following essay, Schalkwyk maintains that in the sonnets Shakespeare used language as a method of social action.

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