"'Pretty Rooms': Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1770/ Author: McDonald, Russ. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry, 486–504. : Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry Annotation: Examines the sonnets by considering the visual design of "Elizabethan domestic architecture" and how it is translated through use of repetition as poetic ornamentation. Argues that "repetition illuminates anew the virtuosity with which Shakespeare exploits the possibilities of poetic artifice, helps to contextualize artistically his impulse to elaboration, and discloses his mixed attitude towards ornament itself." Language: English Persons: Post, Jonathan F. S. Tags: Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Rape of Lucrece WSB Update: Winter 2014 WSB Record Number: bbbc1770