University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-1921 Courtly love in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. Rebbie Doty University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Recommended Citation Doty, Rebbie, "Courtly love in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays." (1921). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 368. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/368 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILlE COURTLY LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS AND PIA YS. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty Of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirementa..1'or the Degree Of Master of Arts , Department of English , ! ": ':'"' . ~ ".,.- by "",) '}" , Rebbie Doty 1921 TABLE OF CONTENTS. -" , , ," Table of Contents. Chapter I. The System of Courtly Love. Page 1. Chapter II. Modifications of Courtly Love in the Age of" Elizabeth. 12. Chapter III. The Element of Courtly Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays. 24. " Sonnets. Love's Labour's Lost. " The Two"Gentlemen of Verona. Romeo and Juliet. A MidsUBner Night's Dream. The Merchant of ¥enice. The Taming of the Shrew. The MerrY'Wives of Windsor. Much Ado About Nothing.