Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems. |
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... Malone's 1780 divisionofthe Sonnets into two subsequences, thefirst 126directed to a young man,the last28 to or abouta dark lady. If,onthe other hand, Q was not authorized by Shakespeare, “manifestly therecan beno assurance that it ...
... Malone's 1780 divisionofthe Sonnets into two subsequences, thefirst 126directed to a young man,the last28 to or abouta dark lady. If,onthe other hand, Q was not authorized by Shakespeare, “manifestly therecan beno assurance that it ...
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... Malone's 1780 division of the Sonnets into two subsequences , the first 126 directed to a young man , the last 28 to or about a dark lady . If , on the other hand , Q was not authorized by Shakespeare , " manifestly there can be no ...
... Malone's 1780 division of the Sonnets into two subsequences , the first 126 directed to a young man , the last 28 to or about a dark lady . If , on the other hand , Q was not authorized by Shakespeare , " manifestly there can be no ...
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... Malone's division of the Quarto into two subsequences . Once again , there is no consensus . 4. THORPE'S DEDICATION The following dedication appears at the front of the 1609 Quarto , after the title page ( see also Figure 3 in this ...
... Malone's division of the Quarto into two subsequences . Once again , there is no consensus . 4. THORPE'S DEDICATION The following dedication appears at the front of the 1609 Quarto , after the title page ( see also Figure 3 in this ...
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... Malone's division of the Sonnets into two subsequences - the first 126 written to the young friend , the last 28 to or about the dark lady - has been accepted by most commentators , but has also frequently been challenged , most ...
... Malone's division of the Sonnets into two subsequences - the first 126 written to the young friend , the last 28 to or about the dark lady - has been accepted by most commentators , but has also frequently been challenged , most ...
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. Malone's division , Booth writes that " [ a ] lthough the sex of the beloved is ... Malone and legions of scholars since have maintained ? Are they , that is , celebrations of Neoplatonic , nonsexual ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. Malone's division , Booth writes that " [ a ] lthough the sex of the beloved is ... Malone and legions of scholars since have maintained ? Are they , that is , celebrations of Neoplatonic , nonsexual ...
Contents
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Shakespeares Sonnets and the Economy | 63 |
Sodomy Reproduction and Signification | 68 |
The Sexing of Shakespeares | 75 |
The Scandal of Shakespeares Sonnets 1994 | 89 |
The Politics | 113 |
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets 1998 | 135 |
Shakespeares Petrarchism | 163 |
Whats the Use? Or The Problematic of Economy | 263 |
Texts and Contexts | 285 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 305 |
The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot | 325 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and Early | 347 |
Shakespeares Dark Lady as | 369 |
Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr W | 391 |
On the Sexual Politics | 411 |
Lars Engle | 185 |
Storing Loss in the Sonnets | 199 |
Politics Heresy and Martyrdom in Shakespeares Sonnet 124 | 219 |
Christian Figurality and Shakespeares | 241 |
Valerie Traub | 431 |
Shakespeares Sonnets and | 455 |
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