Abstract
In an analysis of Shakespeare's 130th Sonnet, Kramer finds that the Bard champions a better way to love rather than the idealization of another that is the convention of courtly love. Actually knowing and loving someone's flaws and oddities is more constructive and enduring in contrast to the courtly love tradition which Shakespeare implies is harmful and misleading in its teaching to value the wrong thing in another.
Recommended Citation
Kramer, Kelly
(2015)
"Genre-Savvy Sonnets: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Problematic Conventions of Courtly Love,"
The Kabod: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/kabod/vol2/iss1/4