Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - English Sonnet Development

Hm, interesting question, I'd like to know any interesting facts if you find them.

I'm not sure if it's important, but the scene in Romeo and Juliet, where they first meet at the party, they speak together in a sonnet, each one with an alternate segment. Maybe that's a step, in that Shakespeare incorporated a sonnet as dialog between two characters?

*searches Yahoo! Reference....*

here's their first lines together, beginning at 1.5.93:

Quote:

Code:

Rom.   [To JULIET.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;                 

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand                 

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Jul.   Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,                 

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;                 

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,                 

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.        

Rom.   Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?                 

Jul.   Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.                 

Rom.   O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;                 

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.        

Jul.   Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.        

Rom.   Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take.

Hope that helps.