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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... play or poem has been interpreted over the centuries . A major feature of each volume in the series is the editor's introduc- tion . Each volume editor provides a substantial essay identifying the main critical issues and problems the play ...
... play or poem has been interpreted over the centuries . A major feature of each volume in the series is the editor's introduc- tion . Each volume editor provides a substantial essay identifying the main critical issues and problems the play ...
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... play or poem from a multiplicity of perspectives , including feminist , Marxist , new historical , semiotic , mythic , performance / staging , cultural , and / or a com- bination of these and other methodologies . Some volumes in the ...
... play or poem from a multiplicity of perspectives , including feminist , Marxist , new historical , semiotic , mythic , performance / staging , cultural , and / or a com- bination of these and other methodologies . Some volumes in the ...
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... plays and other poems ) . Some accept that the 1609 Quarto is primarily Shakespeare's , but have questioned specific sonnets in the collection , usually on aesthetic grounds , though as Booth observes , which sonnets get challenged has ...
... plays and other poems ) . Some accept that the 1609 Quarto is primarily Shakespeare's , but have questioned specific sonnets in the collection , usually on aesthetic grounds , though as Booth observes , which sonnets get challenged has ...
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Critical Essays James Schiffer. of the Supplement to the edition of the plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens , as well as Malone's 1790 edition , that firmly established the 1609 Quarto not only as the basis of ...
Critical Essays James Schiffer. of the Supplement to the edition of the plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens , as well as Malone's 1790 edition , that firmly established the 1609 Quarto not only as the basis of ...
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... Plays , after all , are also works entirely in first person . If the Sonnets are autobiographical , the antipersonalists ask , why is there no evidence of their being read that way for their first 170 years ? Professional and aesthetic ...
... Plays , after all , are also works entirely in first person . If the Sonnets are autobiographical , the antipersonalists ask , why is there no evidence of their being read that way for their first 170 years ? Professional and aesthetic ...
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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