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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... ( 20 : 218 ) . And by the end of the last century , Swinburne could write : " Upon the Sonnets such a preposterous pyramid of presumptuous commentary has long since been reared by the Cimmerian speculation and Boeotian ' brain - sweat ...
... ( 20 : 218 ) . And by the end of the last century , Swinburne could write : " Upon the Sonnets such a preposterous pyramid of presumptuous commentary has long since been reared by the Cimmerian speculation and Boeotian ' brain - sweat ...
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... Sonnets ; see Figure 2 in this volume ) , as well as the entry in the Stationers ' Register on May 20 , 1609 , by publisher Thomas Thorpe of " a Booke called Shakespeares sonnettes " ; ( 2 ) the fact that there is no evidence ...
... Sonnets ; see Figure 2 in this volume ) , as well as the entry in the Stationers ' Register on May 20 , 1609 , by publisher Thomas Thorpe of " a Booke called Shakespeares sonnettes " ; ( 2 ) the fact that there is no evidence ...
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... sonnet 20 , he writes : " It is impossible to read this fulsome panegyrick , addressed to a male object , without an equal mixture of disgust and indignation " ( Malone Supplement 1 : 596 ) . So strong was Steevens's dislike of the Sonnets ...
... sonnet 20 , he writes : " It is impossible to read this fulsome panegyrick , addressed to a male object , without an equal mixture of disgust and indignation " ( Malone Supplement 1 : 596 ) . So strong was Steevens's dislike of the Sonnets ...
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... sonnet 20 , Malone offers the following explanation in his 1790 edition : Some part of this indignation might perhaps have been abated if it had been considered that such addresses to men , however indelicate , were customary in our ...
... sonnet 20 , Malone offers the following explanation in his 1790 edition : Some part of this indignation might perhaps have been abated if it had been considered that such addresses to men , however indelicate , were customary in our ...
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... sonnet 20 : " A man in hew all Hews in his controwling . " Rollins observes dryly that in his endorsement of Hughes , Malone " created a spook harder to drive away than the ghost of Hamlet's father " ( 2 : 181 ) , " a man who is a ...
... sonnet 20 : " A man in hew all Hews in his controwling . " Rollins observes dryly that in his endorsement of Hughes , Malone " created a spook harder to drive away than the ghost of Hamlet's father " ( 2 : 181 ) , " a man who is a ...
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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