The Rival Poet is one of several characters, either fictional or real persons, featured in William Shakespeare's sonnets. The sonnets most commonly identified...
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Shakespeare's sonnets (section The Rival Poet)
the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are...
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The Rival Poets, or the Love Charm is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by W. H. Scott. The opera was first performed...
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published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the Quarto of 1609. It is the final poem of the Rival Poet group of the Fair Youth sonnets...
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Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship (section The Fair Youth, the Dark Lady, and the Rival Poet)
D'Ambois, a 1613 play by George Chapman, who has been suggested as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Chapman describes Oxford as "Rare and most absolute"...
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George Chapman (category 16th-century English poets)
and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. William Minto speculated that Chapman is the unnamed Rival Poet of Shakespeare's...
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launched by Arthur Acheson on textual grounds, in his Shakespeare and the Rival Poet (1903). The new name is a reference to a passage in Act IV, scene 3 of...
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Sonnet 78 (section Rival Poet)
playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is one of the Fair Youth sequence, and the first of the mini-sequence known as the Rival Poet sonnets, thought...
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Richard Barnfield (category 16th-century English poets)
English poet. His relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the "rival poet" mentioned...
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tradition and his father Creophylos was said to have been the host of his rival poet Homer. Others credit Bias of Priene, Thales, or Anaximander (a pupil of...
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