A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 46: ‘Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Shakespeare and the number 46 have a curious relationship. The theory that the Bard translated the 46th Psalm in the King James Version of the Bible (because Shakespeare would have been 46 when work on the translation was nearing its completion, and the 46th word of the psalm is … Read more