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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 70
IS  - 3
T2  - Notes and Queries
SP  - 174-175
ID  - bbbo214
T1  - "'The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Virgil"
AU  - Easting, Robert
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1093/notesj/gjad057
LA  - English
AB  - Acknowledges the Ovidian source of "‘The sun for sorrow will not show his head" at the end of Romeo and Juliet, while identifying a new source: Virgil's Georgics. Points to verbal echoes and also suggests that Shakespeare would have thought of Virgil (the "Mantuan Muse") as he wrote about Romeo's exile to Mantua. Concludes that "the contributions of more than one author might mingle as [Shakespeare] created a striking new line of his own."
ER  -