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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... Stephen Booth ( 1977 ) , Thomas M. Greene ( 1985 ) , and Howard Felperin ( 1985 ) . The Gale volume includes excerpts ( rarely complete essays ) from the writings of approximately eighty authors , from Francis Meres ( 1598 ) to John ...
... Stephen Booth ( 1977 ) , Thomas M. Greene ( 1985 ) , and Howard Felperin ( 1985 ) . The Gale volume includes excerpts ( rarely complete essays ) from the writings of approximately eighty authors , from Francis Meres ( 1598 ) to John ...
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... Stephen Booth , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , or Joel Fineman . My consolation is that the importance of the work of all three authors is universally recognized by scholars today . Judging from the many times they are cited in the essays that ...
... Stephen Booth , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , or Joel Fineman . My consolation is that the importance of the work of all three authors is universally recognized by scholars today . Judging from the many times they are cited in the essays that ...
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... Stephen Booth's masterpiece of sardonic brevity , his appendix to his 1977 edition of the Sonnets titled " Facts and Theories . " G. Blakemore Evans's 1996 New Cambridge edition offers a similar listing of the key , and as yet ...
... Stephen Booth's masterpiece of sardonic brevity , his appendix to his 1977 edition of the Sonnets titled " Facts and Theories . " G. Blakemore Evans's 1996 New Cambridge edition offers a similar listing of the key , and as yet ...
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... Stephen Booth ( 1977 ) , and John Kerrigan ( 1986 ) —this is just a partial listing- as were important critical studies by J. B. Leishman , Giorgio Melchiori ( 1976 ) , and , again , Stephen Booth ( 1969 ) . Leishman's book appeared in ...
... Stephen Booth ( 1977 ) , and John Kerrigan ( 1986 ) —this is just a partial listing- as were important critical studies by J. B. Leishman , Giorgio Melchiori ( 1976 ) , and , again , Stephen Booth ( 1969 ) . Leishman's book appeared in ...
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... Stephen Booth's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets ... unravels ( and restitches ) a bewildering compressed complexity of reference in poems that were once celebrated as a transparent window onto Shakespeare's heart . Booth's commentary ...
... Stephen Booth's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets ... unravels ( and restitches ) a bewildering compressed complexity of reference in poems that were once celebrated as a transparent window onto Shakespeare's heart . Booth's commentary ...
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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