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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... the young friend, for example, have traditionally argued foradate inthe early to mid1590s, while those favoring William Herbert, the third Earl of Pembroke, have tended to posit a dateinthe late 1590s toearly 1600s, since Herbert was ...
... the young friend, for example, have traditionally argued foradate inthe early to mid1590s, while those favoring William Herbert, the third Earl of Pembroke, have tended to posit a dateinthe late 1590s toearly 1600s, since Herbert was ...
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... the young male friend , rival poet ( s ) , and dark lady on the assumption that the Sonnets are autobiographical ( 2:57 ) . Those favoring Henry Wriothesley , the third Earl of Southampton , as the young friend , for example , have ...
... the young male friend , rival poet ( s ) , and dark lady on the assumption that the Sonnets are autobiographical ( 2:57 ) . Those favoring Henry Wriothesley , the third Earl of Southampton , as the young friend , for example , have ...
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... the young man addressed in many of the Sonnets . As we shall see below , a number of candidates with those initials - or with those initials reversed - have been proposed . A different reading of " ONLIE.BEGETTER " as " procurer " was ...
... the young man addressed in many of the Sonnets . As we shall see below , a number of candidates with those initials - or with those initials reversed - have been proposed . A different reading of " ONLIE.BEGETTER " as " procurer " was ...
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... the young man's affections , and perhaps for his patronage as well ( sonnets 78-86 ) ; and a " dark lady , " the poet - speaker's mistress , who the speaker suspects may also be having an affair with the young male friend ( sonnets 40 ...
... the young man's affections , and perhaps for his patronage as well ( sonnets 78-86 ) ; and a " dark lady , " the poet - speaker's mistress , who the speaker suspects may also be having an affair with the young male friend ( sonnets 40 ...
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... the young friend , in fact , the poetic record of homoerotic attraction , or even of a consummated homosexual relationship ? As we shall see , thinking about these sexual issues has shaped , and in many instances deformed , criticism of ...
... the young friend , in fact , the poetic record of homoerotic attraction , or even of a consummated homosexual relationship ? As we shall see , thinking about these sexual issues has shaped , and in many instances deformed , criticism 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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