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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... have made conveniently accessible the literary and theatrical criticism of Shakespeare's greatest legacy , his work . Philip C. Kolin University of Southern Mississippi For Samuel G. Schiffer , 1915-1997 Contents Illustrations Preface Part.
... have made conveniently accessible the literary and theatrical criticism of Shakespeare's greatest legacy , his work . Philip C. Kolin University of Southern Mississippi For Samuel G. Schiffer , 1915-1997 Contents Illustrations Preface Part.
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... literary work in the world " ( xvii ) . In his survey of criticism for the Penguin edition in 1986 , John Kerrigan notes that Herbert S. Donow's " admirable but inevitably incomplete " bibliography of the sonnet in England and America ...
... literary work in the world " ( xvii ) . In his survey of criticism for the Penguin edition in 1986 , John Kerrigan notes that Herbert S. Donow's " admirable but inevitably incomplete " bibliography of the sonnet in England and America ...
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... literary - critical field for another hundred years after the publication of Q , and the Sonnets did not begin to rise in the public's estimation , according to Gary Taylor , until the late eighteenth century as " a by - product of the ...
... literary - critical field for another hundred years after the publication of Q , and the Sonnets did not begin to rise in the public's estimation , according to Gary Taylor , until the late eighteenth century as " a by - product of the ...
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... literary history , Benson's edition has been condemned as a piratical desecration . Benson reprinted all but eight of the 154 sonnets , but in a jumbled order , intermingled with " The Phoenix and the Turtle , " A Lover's Complaint ...
... literary history , Benson's edition has been condemned as a piratical desecration . Benson reprinted all but eight of the 154 sonnets , but in a jumbled order , intermingled with " The Phoenix and the Turtle , " A Lover's Complaint ...
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... literary Procrustes . The single thought of which it is to consist , however luxuriant , must be cramped within fourteen verses , or , however scanty , must be spun out into the same number . On a chain of certain links the existence of ...
... literary Procrustes . The single thought of which it is to consist , however luxuriant , must be cramped within fourteen verses , or , however scanty , must be spun out into the same number . On a chain of certain links the existence of ...
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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