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Shakespeare's sonnets : critical essays / edited by James Schiffer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1988. | Garland reference library of the humanities. Shakespeare criticism ; ; v. 20.Publication details: New York : Garland Pub., 1999.Description: xvi, 474 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0815323654 (alk. paper)
  • 9780367475680
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.3 21 SCH
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page Half Title page Title Page Copyright Page General Editor's Introduction Contents Illustrations Preface Part I: Introduction Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets A Survey of Criticism The 1609 Quarto 1. Authenticity 2. Date Of Composition 3. Authorization And Order 4. Thorpe'S Dedication 5. Lyric Versus Narrative Versus Dramatic 6. Relation To Shakespeare'S Life Benson'S 1640 Edition Edmond Malone And The Biographical Readers Denials Of Autobiography Agnosticism, New Criticism, And The Question Of Artistic Merit The Contemporary Field Shakespeare'S Sonnets: Critical Essays Notes Works Cited Works Consulted (Selective Listing) Part II: Recent Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Editing as Cultural Formation The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets Notes The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets I Ii Iii Notes “Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd” The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets I Ii Iii Iv Notes The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets Absence, Silence Two Kinds Of Speaking On Poems As Messages Imagining Voices Rehearsing The Verse Inner Voice On The Public Stage Within Be Fed The Poem As Book Notes Part III: New Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Shakespeare's Petrarchism Notes Works Cited “I am that I am” Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Shame Notes Works Cited “A dateless lively heat” Notes Works Cited Politics, Heresy, and Martyrdom in Shakespeare's Sonnet 124 and Titus Andronicus Notes Works Cited The Name of the Rose Christian Figurality and Shakespeare's Sonnets From Olives To Roses Notes Works Cited What's the Use? Or, The Problematic of Economy in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets I Ii Notes Works Cited Sonnets 71–74 Texts and Contexts I Ii Iii Notes Works Cited The Matter of Inwardness Shakespeare's Sonnets Notes Works Cited “The dyer's hand” The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot in Shakespeare's Sonnets I. Cheap Print Versus Fair Copy Ii. His Ink/Her O: The Material Reproduction Of Lies, Blot, And Coercion Notes Works Cited Playing “the mother's part” Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Codes of Maternity Notes Works Cited Be Dark but Not Too Dark Shakespeare's Dark Lady as a Sign of Color I Ii Iii Iv Notes Works Cited The Sonnets on Trial Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr. W. H. “The Only Perfect Key To Shakespeare'S Sonnets”: The Willie Hughes Theory “I Had Lived It All”: Identifying With The Bard “An Idle Dream”: The Dissolution Of Identification “I Tried The Door And Found It Locked”: Wilde On Trial Notes Works Cited I, You, He, She, and We On the Sexual Politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets1 Notes Works Cited Sex without Issue Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare's Sonnets1 Notes Works Cited “That which thou hast done“ Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Notes Works Cited
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references.

Cover Page
Half Title page
Title Page
Copyright Page
General Editor's Introduction
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets A Survey of Criticism
The 1609 Quarto
1. Authenticity
2. Date Of Composition
3. Authorization And Order
4. Thorpe'S Dedication
5. Lyric Versus Narrative Versus Dramatic
6. Relation To Shakespeare'S Life
Benson'S 1640 Edition
Edmond Malone And The Biographical Readers
Denials Of Autobiography
Agnosticism, New Criticism, And The Question Of Artistic Merit
The Contemporary Field
Shakespeare'S Sonnets: Critical Essays
Notes
Works Cited
Works Consulted (Selective Listing)
Part II: Recent Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets
Editing as Cultural Formation The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Notes
The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets
I
Ii
Iii
Notes
“Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd” The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets
I
Ii
Iii
Iv
Notes
The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Absence, Silence
Two Kinds Of Speaking
On Poems As Messages
Imagining Voices
Rehearsing The Verse
Inner Voice On The Public Stage
Within Be Fed
The Poem As Book
Notes
Part III: New Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Petrarchism
Notes
Works Cited
“I am that I am” Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Shame
Notes
Works Cited
“A dateless lively heat”
Notes
Works Cited
Politics, Heresy, and Martyrdom in Shakespeare's Sonnet 124 and Titus Andronicus
Notes
Works Cited
The Name of the Rose Christian Figurality and Shakespeare's Sonnets
From Olives To Roses
Notes
Works Cited
What's the Use? Or, The Problematic of Economy in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets
I
Ii
Notes
Works Cited
Sonnets 71–74 Texts and Contexts
I
Ii
Iii
Notes
Works Cited
The Matter of Inwardness Shakespeare's Sonnets
Notes
Works Cited
“The dyer's hand” The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot in Shakespeare's Sonnets
I. Cheap Print Versus Fair Copy
Ii. His Ink/Her O: The Material Reproduction Of Lies, Blot, And Coercion
Notes
Works Cited
Playing “the mother's part” Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Codes of Maternity
Notes
Works Cited
Be Dark but Not Too Dark Shakespeare's Dark Lady as a Sign of Color
I
Ii
Iii
Iv
Notes
Works Cited
The Sonnets on Trial Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
“The Only Perfect Key To Shakespeare'S Sonnets”: The Willie Hughes Theory
“I Had Lived It All”: Identifying With The Bard
“An Idle Dream”: The Dissolution Of Identification
“I Tried The Door And Found It Locked”: Wilde On Trial
Notes
Works Cited
I, You, He, She, and We On the Sexual Politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets1
Notes
Works Cited
Sex without Issue Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare's Sonnets1
Notes
Works Cited
“That which thou hast done“ Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
Notes
Works Cited

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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