Impact
It was so popular during the Elizabethan era it is considered the most influential of all Elizabethan miscellanies. It is generally included with Elizabethan era literature even if it was, in fact, published in 1557, a year before Elizabeth I took the throne.
Shakespeare uses some of its verses in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet, and directly quotes the anonymous poem, "Against him that had slaundered a gentlewoman with him selfe", in The Rape of Lucrece:
- "To me came Tarquin, armed to beguild,
- With outward honesty but yet defiled..."
- "so was the house defiled,
- Oh Collatiue: so was the wife beguilde."
Songes and Sonettes is also known as the most important English poetic collection in the 16th century and inaugurated a long series of poetic anthologies in Elizabethan England.
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