SOURCE: “Set Upon a Golden Bough to Sing: Shakespeare's Debt to Sidney in The Phoenix and Turtle,” in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5107, February 16, 2001, pp. 13-15.
In the following essay, Everett examines the meter and rhyme of The Phoenix and Turtle, and finds that “Shakespeare writes nowhere else—not even in his last plays—quite like this.”
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