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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... words , this volume concentrates solely on contemporary interpretations . At one point the plan had been to offer fewer new essays and to include criticism going back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and the first ninety ...
... words , this volume concentrates solely on contemporary interpretations . At one point the plan had been to offer fewer new essays and to include criticism going back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and the first ninety ...
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... word occurrences in the Sonnets and in plays whose dates are presumed to be known concludes that Shakespeare composed ... words , the issue is still far from settled ( see also Evans 113 ) . 3. AUTHORIZATION AND ORDER There is no direct ...
... word occurrences in the Sonnets and in plays whose dates are presumed to be known concludes that Shakespeare composed ... words , the issue is still far from settled ( see also Evans 113 ) . 3. AUTHORIZATION AND ORDER There is no direct ...
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... word , every letter and point , of the dedication have caused acrimonious disputes " ( 2 : 166 ) . The chief issues in regard to Thorpe's dedication are the meaning of " ONLIE.BEGETTER " and the identity of " MR.W.H. " ; the two issues ...
... word , every letter and point , of the dedication have caused acrimonious disputes " ( 2 : 166 ) . The chief issues in regard to Thorpe's dedication are the meaning of " ONLIE.BEGETTER " and the identity of " MR.W.H. " ; the two issues ...
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... words , scholarly opinions vary about whether these poems should be read as a poetic novel , as a series of dramatic monologues , as letters , as journal entries , as silent meditations , or as disparate , unrelated groups of related ...
... words , scholarly opinions vary about whether these poems should be read as a poetic novel , as a series of dramatic monologues , as letters , as journal entries , as silent meditations , or as disparate , unrelated groups of related ...
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... words , Booth 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 ...
... words , Booth 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 ...
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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