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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... poet - speaker , a beautiful , younger male friend whom the poet first urges to marry and to beget children ( sonnets 1-17 ) , and whom he later promises to immortalize in his verse ; a " rival poet " ( or poets ) who competes for the ...
... poet - speaker , a beautiful , younger male friend whom the poet first urges to marry and to beget children ( sonnets 1-17 ) , and whom he later promises to immortalize in his verse ; a " rival poet " ( or poets ) who competes for the ...
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... poet and dark lady , furthermore , critics are not unanimous about whether the young friend has a sexual relationship with her as well ( Pequigney thinks not ; see Such Is My Love 147 , 153- 54 ) . 6. RELATION TO SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE More ...
... poet and dark lady , furthermore , critics are not unanimous about whether the young friend has a sexual relationship with her as well ( Pequigney thinks not ; see Such Is My Love 147 , 153- 54 ) . 6. RELATION TO SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE More ...
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... poet , though clearly many skeptics are also unpersuaded by the evidence offered to support specific historical ... poetry is auto- biographical . But the particle of actual life out of which verse is wrought may be , and almost ...
... poet , though clearly many skeptics are also unpersuaded by the evidence offered to support specific historical ... poetry is auto- biographical . But the particle of actual life out of which verse is wrought may be , and almost ...
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... poet who often assumed the personae of despicable egotists in his dramatic monologues , Browning had a lot invested in this issue . Naturally , he wanted to deflect readers from viewing his poetry as a window on his life , his " I ...
... poet who often assumed the personae of despicable egotists in his dramatic monologues , Browning had a lot invested in this issue . Naturally , he wanted to deflect readers from viewing his poetry as a window on his life , his " I ...
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... poet - speaker expresses pederastic longings for the young man , Boswell follows Malone's line : in the context of ... poetry . In fact , he finds Malone's response to Steevens does " scanty justice to these beautiful compositions ...
... poet - speaker expresses pederastic longings for the young man , Boswell follows Malone's line : in the context of ... poetry . In fact , he finds Malone's response to Steevens does " scanty justice to these beautiful compositions ...
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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