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The Shakespeare sonnets we read this semester address which of the following topics (mark all that apply)?

Equiano’s protagonist is sold into slavery by Africans from a different tribe.

Lavoris and Salamander are the characters in “The Disappointment”.

Aphra Behn’s birth date and family are not known for certain.

Chaucer is in many ways emblematic of the newly acquired ability of the middle class to rise from commoner to nobility.

In Paradise Lost, Adam: 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains classic hunting motifs, including detailed directions on field dressing both pigs and deer.

Gawain keeps kisses, a ring, and a girdle.

“The Dream of the Rood” is mostly told in third person, by the pope, through the dreamer.

In “The Imperfect Enjoyment”, the speaker curses his genitalia, wishing that it will never be capable of urination and that it be stricken with venereal disease.