This article is within the scope of WikiProject Shakespeare, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of William Shakespeare on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ShakespeareWikipedia:WikiProject ShakespeareTemplate:WikiProject ShakespeareShakespeare articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Poetry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of poetry on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoetryWikipedia:WikiProject PoetryTemplate:WikiProject PoetryPoetry articles
I have to say that some of the information here could use a good looking at. For instance, the reading of line 12. Even though there appears to be a source, I do not know how one can read the line to mean "The speaker is advising the young lover to not acknowledge him in public either. Unless the young lover wants to bring dishonor to the speaker.[6]" "Unless thou take that honor from thy name" (12) means talking to the speaker will besmirch the object of the poem, not the other way around. I'm not a Shakespeare scholar per se, but I do teach this regularly. Since I don't have Evans at hand, I can only assume whoever wrote this entry mis-read Evans. I've never come across such a reading of these lines, nor can understand how someone could read them in the way suggested. The only way the previous reading works is if the speaker in Sonnet 36 is the fair youth, that the poet is writing himself a reply to Sonnet 35, imagining what the fair youth would/should be saying.
I agree with the not so recent decision to keep this, but boy, it could use some work. Bleckb (talk) 03:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
