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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... seem entitled " ( Supplement 1 : 684 ) . In a later paragraph he writes : When they are described as a mass of affectation , pedantry , circumlocution , and nonsense , the picture appears to me overcharged . Their great defects seem to ...
... seem entitled " ( Supplement 1 : 684 ) . In a later paragraph he writes : When they are described as a mass of affectation , pedantry , circumlocution , and nonsense , the picture appears to me overcharged . Their great defects seem to ...
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... seems to him stronger than the one for Southampton ( 2 : 196 ) . Supporters of Pembroke as the young friend point to his initials , " W. H. , " of course , as well as to the fact that the First Folio was dedicated to him and his brother ...
... seems to him stronger than the one for Southampton ( 2 : 196 ) . Supporters of Pembroke as the young friend point to his initials , " W. H. , " of course , as well as to the fact that the First Folio was dedicated to him and his brother ...
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... seems , were often prompted by moral panic at the thought of an adulterous bard with an undeniable attraction to a beautiful young man . But moral fastidiousness has not been the only motive for questioning the autobiographical ...
... seems , were often prompted by moral panic at the thought of an adulterous bard with an undeniable attraction to a beautiful young man . But moral fastidiousness has not been the only motive for questioning the autobiographical ...
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... seems to be more than one strong opinion . Here , for example , is part of Gary Taylor's brief account of the Sonnets ' reception in Reinventing Shakespeare : Throughout the nineteenth century the sonnets had been admired as romantic ...
... seems to be more than one strong opinion . Here , for example , is part of Gary Taylor's brief account of the Sonnets ' reception in Reinventing Shakespeare : Throughout the nineteenth century the sonnets had been admired as romantic ...
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... seems not to have thought much of their style : " Among all Shakespeare's [ Sonnets ] not a single one is very admirable , and few sink very low . They are hot and pothery : there is much condensation , little delicacy ; like raspberry ...
... seems not to have thought much of their style : " Among all Shakespeare's [ Sonnets ] not a single one is very admirable , and few sink very low . They are hot and pothery : there is much condensation , little delicacy ; like raspberry ...
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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