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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... suggesting the names of scholarsI might invite to contribute. BruceR. Smithalso assisted by recommending possible reprints forthisvolume and by contactingmore than one author onmybehalf; hisenthusiasm about thisbook hasbeen important ...
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... suggesting the names of scholars I might invite to contribute . Bruce R. Smith also assisted by recommending possible reprints for this volume and by contacting more than one author on my behalf ; his enthusiasm about this book has been ...
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... suggests , the use of a trope common to the discourses of courtly love and of English Renaissance patronage neither confirms nor disproves a sexual or a patronage relationship , or some combination of the two . Regarding the so - called ...
... suggests , the use of a trope common to the discourses of courtly love and of English Renaissance patronage neither confirms nor disproves a sexual or a patronage relationship , or some combination of the two . Regarding the so - called ...
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... suggest to these readers an origin in real - life experience ; Shakespeare , they argue , must have been writing to people who participated in or at least knew about such events and who therefore did not need them to be explained . To ...
... suggest to these readers an origin in real - life experience ; Shakespeare , they argue , must have been writing to people who participated in or at least knew about such events and who therefore did not need them to be explained . To ...
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... suggesting that he had been Shakespeare's patron . Furthermore , like Southampton , Herbert as a young man was violently opposed to the attempts of others to force him to marry . Known for his personal beauty and for his patronage of ...
... suggesting that he had been Shakespeare's patron . Furthermore , like Southampton , Herbert as a young man was violently opposed to the attempts of others to force him to marry . Known for his personal beauty and for his patronage 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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