A Comparison of Romantic Love in Shakespeares Sonnets ...

Shakespeares Sonnets Romantic Love in As You Like It Shakespeares comedy As You Like It is clearly a pastoral comedy with a country setting, a theme revolving around love and a story which consists of a series of accidental meetings between characters and a resolution involving transformations of characters and divine intervention. The comedy involves the traditional literary device of moving urban characters into the country where they have to deal with life in a different manner. Whereas the pastoral comedy was usually a vehicle for satire on corrupted urban values, in this play the satire appears to be directed at the convention of Petrarchan love.(Rosenblum, 86) Renaissance conventions of love were strongly†¦show more content†¦For Petrarch, the sonnet sequence consisted of a series of love poems written by an adoring lover to an unattainable lady of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The love in his sonnets was elaborate and artificial. The unattainable love object of Petrarch inspired many English poets. By Shakespeares time, the sonnet sequence and its subject matter, was a well established convention. (Moulton, 561) The English altered the sonnet into three quatrains and a concluding couplet.The Petrarchan convention of love embodied a despairing lover writing to a lovely distant lady in terms ofworshipful adoration and reverent praise. Sir Phillip Sidneys Astrophil and Stella contributed to the Petrarchan sonnets immense popularity in the 1590s. However, an anti-Petrarchan convention appeared in which the woman to whom to the sonnet was addressed was castigated as deceitful and an ugly manipulator. By the time Shakespeare wrote his Sonnets, the sonnet form had developed subject matter that was both faithful adoration of the idealized lover and spiteful contempt for an individual unworthy of love. 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