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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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VI
'MR. WILLIAM HERBERT'
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Origin of the notion that Mr. W. H.' stands for William Herbert 422
The Earl of Pembroke known only as Lord Herbert in youth 423
Thorpe's mode of addressing the Earl of Pembroke 424
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF PEMBROKE
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Shakespeare with the acting company at Wilton in 1603 427
The dedication of the First Folio in 1623 428
No suggestion in the 'Sonnets' of the youth's identity with Pembroke 429
Aubrey's ignorance of any relation between Shakespeare and Pembroke 431
VIII
THE 'WILL' SONNETS
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Elizabethan meanings of 'will' 432
Shakespeare's uses of the word 433
Shakespeare's puns on the word 434
Arbitrary and irregular use of italics by Elizabethan and Jacobean printers 435
The conceits of Sonnets cxxxv-vi interpreted 436
Sonnet cxxxv 437
Sonnet cxxxvi 439
Sonnet cxxxiv 441
Sonnet cxliii 442
IX
THE VOGUE OF THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET, 1591-1597
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1557 Wyatt's and Surrey's sonnets published 443
1582 Watson's Centurie of Love 444
1591 Sidney's Astrophel and Stella 444
I. Collected sonnets of feigned love 445
1592 Daniel's Delia 446
Fame of Daniel's sonnets 447
1592 Constable's Diana 447
1593 Barnabe Barnes's sonnets 448
1593 Watson's Tears of Fancie 449
1593 Giles Fletcher's Licia 449
1593 Lodge's Phillis 449
1594 Drayton's Idea 450
1594 Percy's Cœlia 451