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Record Nr.

UNISA996205516103316

Titolo

A companion to Shakespeare's sonnets [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006

ISBN

1-78268-711-4

1-280-74793-5

9786610747931

0-470-98456-2

1-4051-7741-1

0-470-99701-X

1-4051-7200-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (535 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; v.45

Altri autori (Persone)

SchoenfeldtMichael Carl

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 contenuto

A COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I  Sonnet Form and Sonnet Sequence; 1 The Value of the Sonnets; 2 Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets; 3 The Incomplete Narrative of Shakespeare's Sonnets; 4 Revolution in Shake-speares Sonnets; PART II  Shakespeare and His Predecessors; 5 The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare; 6 "Dressing old words new"? Re-evaluating the "Delian Structure"; 7 Confounded by Winter: Speeding Time in Shakespeare's Sonnets; PART III Editorial Theory and Biographical Inquiry: Editing the Sonnets

8 Shake-speares Sonnets, Shakespeare's Sonnets, and Shakespearean Biography9 Mr. Who He?; 10 Editing the Sonnets; 11 William Empson and the Sonnets; PART IV The Sonnets in Manuscript and Print; 12 Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England; 13 The Sonnets and Book History; PART V Models of Desire in the Sonnets; 14 Shakespeare's Love Objects; 15 Tender Distance: Latinity and Desire in Shakespeare's Sonnets; 16 Fickle Glass; 17 "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame": Mapping the "Emotional



Regime" of Shakespeare's Sonnets

PART VI Ideas of Darkness in the Sonnets18 Rethinking Shakespeare's Dark Lady; 19 Flesh Colors and Shakespeare's Sonnets; PART VII Memory and Repetition in the Sonnets; 20 Voicing the Young Man: Memory, Forgetting, and Subjectivity in the Procreation Sonnets; 21 "Full character'd": Competing Forms of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets; PART VIII: The Sonnets in/and the Plays; 22 Halting Sonnets: Poetry and Theater in Much Ado About Nothing; 23 Personal Identity and Vicarious Experience in Shakespeare's Sonnets; PART IX The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint

24 "Making the quadrangle round": Alchemy's Protean Forms in Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint25 The Enigma of A Lover's Complaint; Appendix The 1609 Text of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets.An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets.Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars.Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets.Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases.Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.