"Praising the Negative: Value, Quantity, and the Nature of 'No' in Shakespeare's Sonnets" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo343/ Author: Netzley, Ryan. Type: Journal Article Year: 2024 Publication Information: Shakespeare Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2024): 179–201. DOI: 10.1093/sq/quae027 Annotation: By reading instances of "no," shows how Shakespeare's sonnets and sonnet tradition more broadly insist "on its own ineffectuality, failure, and redundancy" as well as "its own negativity." Language: English Tags: Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Sonnets WSB Update: Fall 2025 WSB Record Number: bbbo343