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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810339303321

Autore

Mirsky Mark

Titolo

The drama in Shakespeare's sonnets : "a satire to decay" / / Mark Jay Mirsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison [NJ], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

ISBN

1-283-17310-7

9786613173102

1-61147-027-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

821/.3

Soggetti

Sonnets, English - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cupid's Seething Bath; Chapter 01. Master Mistress of My Passion; Chapter 02. The Ashes of His Youth; Chapter 03. Farewell Thou Art Too Dear; Chapter 04. A Motley to the View; Chapter 05. Every Bad a Perfect Best; Chapter 06. Dear Love I Rise and Fall; Epilogue: A Final Dip; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: ""A Satire to Decay"" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has frustrated scholars and poets alike. Arguing that the Sonnets are not just a ""higgledy piggledy"" collection of poems but were put in order by Shakespeare himself, and drawing on the insights of several of the Sonnets' foremost contempora