John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies” helps us understand the playful, kidding, happily artificial or tongue-in-cheek aspect of the manners, exaggerations, and glittering surface of the sonnet conventions.
John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies” helps us understand the playful, kidding, happily artificial or tongue-in-cheek aspect of the manners, exaggerations, and glittering surface of the sonnet conventions.