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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page 26
... poet's brother , Hamnet Shakespeare , the author's son who died in 1596 ; actor Richard Burbage ; actor Will Kemp ; Prince Hal ; and , as was mentioned earlier , Queen Elizabeth ( Rollins 2 : 223-26 , 248 ) . Candidates for the rival poet ...
... poet's brother , Hamnet Shakespeare , the author's son who died in 1596 ; actor Richard Burbage ; actor Will Kemp ; Prince Hal ; and , as was mentioned earlier , Queen Elizabeth ( Rollins 2 : 223-26 , 248 ) . Candidates for the rival poet ...
Page 28
... poet - speaker in " House " is besieged by a mob intent on prying into every aspect of the poet's private life . It was one thing for Wordsworth to discern his own autobiographical practice in Shakespeare's Sonnets , but for Browning ...
... poet - speaker in " House " is besieged by a mob intent on prying into every aspect of the poet's private life . It was one thing for Wordsworth to discern his own autobiographical practice in Shakespeare's Sonnets , but for Browning ...
Page 29
... poet - speaker expresses pederastic longings for the young man , Boswell follows Malone's line : in the context of ... poet's muse ... is [ sic ] no Earl of Southampton , no Earl of Pembroke , no Queen Elizabeth , no Mrs. Varnon [ sic ] ...
... poet - speaker expresses pederastic longings for the young man , Boswell follows Malone's line : in the context of ... poet's muse ... is [ sic ] no Earl of Southampton , no Earl of Pembroke , no Queen Elizabeth , no Mrs. Varnon [ sic ] ...
Page 30
... poet's wife . Rollins exclaims , " No more astounding explanation has ever been printed " ( 2 : 157 , 161 ) . The ... poet ( s ) and dark lady . The source studies of M. J. Wolff and Sidney Lee were especially influential in the early ...
... poet's wife . Rollins exclaims , " No more astounding explanation has ever been printed " ( 2 : 157 , 161 ) . The ... poet ( s ) and dark lady . The source studies of M. J. Wolff and Sidney Lee were especially influential in the early ...
Page 31
... poet's personal feelings , as well as incidents from his life ( 8 ) . Yet an autobiographical Shakespeare , Lee ... poet with humiliating experiences of which there is no hint elsewhere " ( 9 ) . More specifically , Lee states , " a ...
... poet's personal feelings , as well as incidents from his life ( 8 ) . Yet an autobiographical Shakespeare , Lee ... poet with humiliating experiences of which there is no hint elsewhere " ( 9 ) . More specifically , Lee states , " a ...
Contents
3 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
addressed appears argues argument attempt beauty become beloved body Booth called Cambridge century character claim critics cultural dark lady death desire difference discussion distinction early modern edition Elizabethan English essay example express eyes fair female figure gender give hand heart ideal imagined interpretation issue kind language later least less lines literary live London look lover lyric male Malone Malone's maternity means misogyny mother narrative nature never notes object offers once perhaps person plays poems poet poetic poetry possibility praise present procreation question readers reason reference relation Renaissance rose seems sense sequence sexual Shakespeare's Sonnets shame silent social speak speaker suggests sweet thee thing thou thought tradition turn usury verse voice Wilde woman women writing written York young