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A Motif Of Love Throughout The Elizabethan Era

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Throughout the Elizabethan Era William Shakespeare composed numerous poems, sonnets, and plays. Shakespeare is credited for writing one hundred and fifty-four sonnets. Theses sonnets that he compiled had multiple themes; consisting of love, procreation, greed, selfishness, and even death. During his allotted time as an author he wrote two sonnets titled “Sonnet XXII” and “Sonnet XXIII”.
Furthermore, Shakespeare gave his work “Sonnet XXII” a motif of love. In “Sonnet XXII” there are two characters. The first character is a young man, “For all that beauty… cover thee” (Shakespeare, l. 5). The second character is an old man. However, the old man doesn’t look beautiful “The seemly raiment of my heart, / Which in thy breast doth live, as thine

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