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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... verse ; a " rival poet " ( or poets ) who competes for 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 ...
... verse ; a " rival poet " ( or poets ) who competes for 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 ...
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... verse is wrought may be , and almost always is , wholly incommensurate to the emotion depicted , and remote from the forms into which it is ultimately shaped " ( 2 : 139 ) . In summary , then , despite all that has been written about ...
... verse is wrought may be , and almost always is , wholly incommensurate to the emotion depicted , and remote from the forms into which it is ultimately shaped " ( 2 : 139 ) . In summary , then , despite all that has been written about ...
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... verses apply to a woman instead of a man " ( Rollins 2 : 20 ) . Benson provided the following preface to his collection : To the Reader : I Here presume ( under favour ) to present to your view , some excellent and sweetely composed ...
... verses apply to a woman instead of a man " ( Rollins 2 : 20 ) . Benson provided the following preface to his collection : To the Reader : I Here presume ( under favour ) to present to your view , some excellent and sweetely composed ...
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... verses apply to a woman instead of a man ' from ' some ' to ' many ' . Rollins gives three examples as if there were countless others , but three is all there are and those three appear to have been made to avoid solecism rather than ...
... verses apply to a woman instead of a man ' from ' some ' to ' many ' . Rollins gives three examples as if there were countless others , but three is all there are and those three appear to have been made to avoid solecism rather than ...
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... 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 its reception is secure as soon as admirers of it have counted their expected and ...
... 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 its reception is secure as soon as admirers of it have counted their expected and ...
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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