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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... Trial : Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Rebecca Laroche 391 I , You , He , She , and We : On the Sexual Politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets Bruce R. Smith 411 Sex without Issue : Sodomy , Reproduction , and Signification viii ...
... Trial : Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Rebecca Laroche 391 I , You , He , She , and We : On the Sexual Politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets Bruce R. Smith 411 Sex without Issue : Sodomy , Reproduction , and Signification viii ...
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... sexual courtship at first and later reflects coded references to a consummated sexual relationship ( 12 ) . Before either Marotti or Pequigney published their studies , Booth nicely captured the difficulty of interpretation : " the ...
... sexual courtship at first and later reflects coded references to a consummated sexual relationship ( 12 ) . Before either Marotti or Pequigney published their studies , Booth nicely captured the difficulty of interpretation : " the ...
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... sexual relationship with her as well ( Pequigney thinks not ; see Such Is My Love 147 , 153- 54 ) . 6. RELATION TO SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE More has been written on this issue than on any other related to the Sonnets . Those who believe the ...
... sexual relationship with her as well ( Pequigney thinks not ; see Such Is My Love 147 , 153- 54 ) . 6. RELATION TO SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE More has been written on this issue than on any other related to the Sonnets . Those who believe the ...
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... sexuality reveals : " William Shakespeare was almost certainly homosexual , bisexual , or heterosexual . The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter " ( Sonnets 548 ) . Booth's important work owes an acknowledged debt to Empson's ...
... sexuality reveals : " William Shakespeare was almost certainly homosexual , bisexual , or heterosexual . The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter " ( Sonnets 548 ) . Booth's important work owes an acknowledged debt to Empson's ...
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... sexual , class , and racial differences ; moreover , these poems are often mentioned in accounts of the history of subjectivity , of Elizabethan and Jacobean composing and printing practices , and of Renaissance patronage Reading New ...
... sexual , class , and racial differences ; moreover , these poems are often mentioned in accounts of the history of subjectivity , of Elizabethan and Jacobean composing and printing practices , and of Renaissance patronage Reading New ...
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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