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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... biographical debates in the early nineteenth century , James Boswell the younger protested : " There are few topicks connected with Shakespeare upon which the ingenuity and research of his criticks have been more fruitlessly exercised ...
... biographical debates in the early nineteenth century , James Boswell the younger protested : " There are few topicks connected with Shakespeare upon which the ingenuity and research of his criticks have been more fruitlessly exercised ...
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... biographical . But the particle of actual life out of which 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 ...
... biographical . But the particle of actual life out of which 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 ...
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... biographical speculation , much less , in the opinion of many , aesthetic appreciation . 12 Through most of its literary history , Benson's edition has been condemned as a piratical desecration . Benson reprinted all but eight of the ...
... biographical speculation , much less , in the opinion of many , aesthetic appreciation . 12 Through most of its literary history , Benson's edition has been condemned as a piratical desecration . Benson reprinted all but eight of the ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL READERS In virtually all accounts of the reception history of the Sonnets , Edmond Malone holds pride of place as this collection's most important editor . It was Malone's edition of the Sonnets in 1780 as part of the ...
... BIOGRAPHICAL READERS In virtually all accounts of the reception history of the Sonnets , Edmond Malone holds pride of place as this collection's most important editor . It was Malone's edition of the Sonnets in 1780 as part of the ...
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... his heart " ( 2-3 ) . Meanwhile , in Germany the same biographical assumptions were popularized by the von Schlegel brothers , August Wilhelm in 1796 and Friedrich in 1812. Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets 23.
... his heart " ( 2-3 ) . Meanwhile , in Germany the same biographical assumptions were popularized by the von Schlegel brothers , August Wilhelm in 1796 and Friedrich in 1812. Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets 23.
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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