Premium Content Dark Beauties in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella"
By Theoderek Wayne - July 24, 2002
Germinating in anonymous Middle English lyrics, the subversion of the classical poetic representation of feminine beauty as fair-haired and blue-eyed took on new meaning in the age of exploration under sonneteers Sidney and Shakespeare. No longer did the brown hair of "Alison" only serve to distinguish her from the pack; the features of the new…
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