Sonnets 15 and 16
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Title
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Sonnets 15 and 16
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Description
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The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.
SONNET 15
Overall Notes
’15 queen Mary (Fr.) marries Ch. Brandon (produces Lady Jane Grey)
Treaty signed with Spain ’15
1515 Louis XII dies = Succ. by Francis I + Mary mr. Ch. Brandon secretly
Line 12
Change: Chancellor
Line 14
Ingraft: Links to plant world[;] Family Tree restarted (Mary + Ch.)
SONNET 16
Overall Notes
Feb. 18 ’16 – Baby Mary
Garden is England
’16 Ferdinand dies; Charles succeeds him few days before Mary’s birth (see sonnet line 9)
Transition to series—portrait of “yourself”—“inward worth” + “outward fair,” subject of sonnets
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Subject
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Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sonnets; Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
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Is Part Of
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Margaret Demorest Papers, CCA 10.2011.1. Casper College Archives and Special Collections.
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Date Created
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1968
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Language
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Primarily English; some Latin
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Format
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PDF
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Identifier
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CCA 10.2011.01_Sonnets_15_16
