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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... Sonnets Olga L. Valbuena 325 Playing " the mother's part " : Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Codes of Maternity Naomi J. Miller 347 Be Dark but Not Too Dark : Shakespeare's Dark Lady as a Sign of Color Marvin Hunt 369 The Sonnets ...
... Sonnets Olga L. Valbuena 325 Playing " the mother's part " : Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Codes of Maternity Naomi J. Miller 347 Be Dark but Not Too Dark : Shakespeare's Dark Lady as a Sign of Color Marvin Hunt 369 The Sonnets ...
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... the Sonnets tell . Most of the essays in this volume , by the way , were completed before publication in late 1997 of Helen Vendler's The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Katherine Duncan - Jones's New Arden edition ; therefore , few of ...
... the Sonnets tell . Most of the essays in this volume , by the way , were completed before publication in late 1997 of Helen Vendler's The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Katherine Duncan - Jones's New Arden edition ; therefore , few of ...
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... the Sonnets by stating , " Probably , more nonsense has been talked and written , more intellectual and emotional energy expended in vain , on the Sonnets of Shakespeare than on any other literary work in the world " ( xvii ) . In his ...
... the Sonnets by stating , " Probably , more nonsense has been talked and written , more intellectual and emotional energy expended in vain , on the Sonnets of Shakespeare than on any other literary work in the world " ( xvii ) . In his ...
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... the sonnets necessarily presume and imply stated or unstated , lucky or dubious , judgments about the problems " ( 3 ) ... the Sonnets ( 2 : 45-46 ) . Needless to say , those who reject Shakespeare as author of the plays also reject his ...
... the sonnets necessarily presume and imply stated or unstated , lucky or dubious , judgments about the problems " ( 3 ) ... the Sonnets ( 2 : 45-46 ) . Needless to say , those who reject Shakespeare as author of the plays also reject his ...
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... the sonnet - writing vogue was at its height ) , others favoring a later starting point , from the last years of the ... the Sonnets had to have been written by 1598. As Rollins observes , theories about date of composition have often ...
... the sonnet - writing vogue was at its height ) , others favoring a later starting point , from the last years of the ... the Sonnets had to have been written by 1598. As Rollins observes , theories about date of composition have often ...
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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