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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... thought and said about a Shakespearean play or poem . In essence , each vol- ume supplies a careful survey of essential materials in the history of criti- cism for a Shakespearean play or poem . In offering readers complete , ful ...
... thought and said about a Shakespearean play or poem . In essence , each vol- ume supplies a careful survey of essential materials in the history of criti- cism for a Shakespearean play or poem . In offering readers complete , ful ...
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... thought , and style with other works ( both dramatic and nondramatic ) assumed to be by Shakespeare ; and ( 6 ) the presence of sonnets , also in the English form , in plays known to be by Shakespeare , for example , Love's Labor's Lost ...
... thought , and style with other works ( both dramatic and nondramatic ) assumed to be by Shakespeare ; and ( 6 ) the presence of sonnets , also in the English form , in plays known to be by Shakespeare , for example , Love's Labor's Lost ...
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... thought of which it is to consist , however luxuriant , must be cramped within fourteen verses , or , however scanty , must be spun out into the same number . On a chain of certain links the existence of this metrical whim depends ; and ...
... thought of which it is to consist , however luxuriant , must be cramped within fourteen verses , or , however scanty , must be spun out into the same number . On a chain of certain links the existence of this metrical whim depends ; and ...
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... thoughts that occur in his dramatick productions , are found here likewise ; as may appear from the numerous parallels that have been cited from his dramas , chiefly for the purpose of authenticating these poems . Had they therefore no ...
... thoughts that occur in his dramatick productions , are found here likewise ; as may appear from the numerous parallels that have been cited from his dramas , chiefly for the purpose of authenticating these poems . Had they therefore no ...
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... thought he was Spenser , others that he was Chapman , or Marlowe , or Jonson , or Daniel ( who grew up near Herbert and dedicated poems to him ) , or Drayton ( who dedicated poems to both Southampton and Pembroke ) , or Gervase Markham ...
... thought he was Spenser , others that he was Chapman , or Marlowe , or Jonson , or Daniel ( who grew up near Herbert and dedicated poems to him ) , or Drayton ( who dedicated poems to both Southampton and Pembroke ) , or Gervase Markham ...
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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