Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 60 IS - no. 3 T2 - Notes and Queries SP - 438-41 ID - bbbc800 T1 - "Shakespeare's Sonnet 125: Who Bore the Canopy?" AU - Rollett, John M PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - canopy LA - English AB - In noting that a number of commentators, struggling with first four lines of Sonnet 125, allow for the possibility that Shakespeare did once bear the canopy, discusses canopies in order to argue that Shakespeare would never have been chosen to carry one. Reprinted in Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets (q.v.). ER -