Sonnet 53 and 54
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Title
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Sonnet 53 and 54
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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 53
Overall Notes
Style here—a backing up—turning on self—
Spring may be April = Anne B.
6 July ’53: Edw. d; Mary on throne
10 July – Jane prod.[?] Q. by Northumb. group. Mary flees [illegible] + North[umberland] exec[uted]
’54 Birth of Sydney
Much Later—Pen. writes deris. letter to James—with Venus as code name for E (she learns of it)
“Truth” of identity in both sonnets here marriage of Mary + Phillip ’53
Line 2
Strange shadows: Mary is one shadow of E
Line 5
Counterfeit: both sexes here in comparison [Adonis (line 5) and Helen (line 7)] or perhaps: description of Adonis is only poor imitation of you
SONNET 54
Overall Notes
Check on his canker-bloom (perhaps it means flawed rose)
12 Feb. 16 yr. old Jane + Priest J[?] exec[uted]
E released from Tower May ’54
Untrue beauty dies unwoo’d but sweet beauty leaves sweet adown—his verse distill
Line 14
Distills: Philip? (Castile?)
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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_53_54
