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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... speaker's mistress , who the speaker suspects may also be having an affair with the young male friend ( sonnets 40-42 , 133 , 134 , 144 , and perhaps others as well ) . Malone's division of the Sonnets into two subsequences - the first ...
... speaker's mistress , who the speaker suspects may also be having an affair with the young male friend ( sonnets 40-42 , 133 , 134 , 144 , and perhaps others as well ) . Malone's division of the Sonnets into two subsequences - the first ...
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... speaker is addressing a man of high rank " is " an implication that could just as well derive from the courtly love tradition of addressing beloved ladies as if they were feudal lords " ( Sonnets 547 ) . In other words , Booth suggests ...
... speaker is addressing a man of high rank " is " an implication that could just as well derive from the courtly love tradition of addressing beloved ladies as if they were feudal lords " ( Sonnets 547 ) . In other words , Booth suggests ...
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... speaker says his name is " Will , " puns many times upon that name ( " Will " may also be the name of the young friend and perhaps of the dark lady's husband as well ) , and perhaps alludes to Shakespeare's profession as an actor ...
... speaker says his name is " Will , " puns many times upon that name ( " Will " may also be the name of the young friend and perhaps of the dark lady's husband as well ) , and perhaps alludes to Shakespeare's profession as an actor ...
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... speaker's young friend ( or friends ) . We do not know whether all the sonnets are to be taken as spoken by a single speaker or whether the speaker in each poem is Shakespeare , a fictional lover , or a man . We do not know that the ...
... speaker's young friend ( or friends ) . We do not know whether all the sonnets are to be taken as spoken by a single speaker or whether the speaker in each poem is Shakespeare , a fictional lover , or a man . We do not know that the ...
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... speaker in " House " is besieged by a mob intent on prying into every aspect of the poet's private life . It was one thing for Wordsworth to discern his own autobiographical practice in Shakespeare's Sonnets , but for Browning , it ...
... speaker in " House " is besieged by a mob intent on prying into every aspect of the poet's private life . It was one thing for Wordsworth to discern his own autobiographical practice in Shakespeare's Sonnets , but for Browning , it ...
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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