Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Routledge, 15/04/2013 - 496 páginas 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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... Steevens , as well as Malone's 1790 edition , that firmly established the 1609 Quarto not only as the basis of ... Steevens , whom Malone had invited to contribute ; Steevens had himself edited the Sonnets in 1766 , though without notes ...
... Steevens had based his edition on the 1609 Quarto , but unlike Malone , Steevens was not an admirer of these poems . His objections were both aesthetic and moral , and strong objections they were indeed . Of the sonnet form , for ...
... Steevens for his , Steevens was by no means the last to express such strong moral revulsion . Thus , half a century later Henry Hallam would write : " Notwithstanding the frequent beauties of these sonnets , the pleasure of their ...
... Steevens's comments about the phrase " master- mistress " in 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 ...
... Steevens has observed , with illiberal private abuse and peevish satire , the concurring testimony of his contemporaries will confirm the declaration of honest Chettle , that " his demeanour was no less civil , than he excellent in the ...
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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 |