LEADER 03903oam 2200673I 450 001 9910959207403321 005 20250718055131.0 010 $a1-317-89368-9 010 $a1-315-84404-4 010 $a1-317-89369-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315844046 035 $a(CKB)3710000000202204 035 $a(EBL)1746771 035 $a(OCoLC)884647547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001343386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11740721 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001343386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11309872 035 $a(PQKB)11308332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1746771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1746771 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10899543 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL629295 035 $a(OCoLC)887843961 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB138434 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000202204 100 $a20180706e20132000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems /$fA.D. Cousins 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 225 1 $aLongman Medieval and Renaissance Library 300 $aFirst published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited. 311 08$a1-138-16061-X 311 08$a0-582-21512-9 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Venus and Adonis; (i) The minor epic. Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis; (ii) The poem's narrator. Venus and the multiplicity, the otherness of love; (iii) Venus and metamorphosis; (iv) Adonis the rhetorician. Adonis, Narcissus and metamorphosis; (v) Adonis, the narrator and the male gaze. Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Donne's 'Elegy 19'; Chapter 2 Lucrece; (i) Versions of the Lucretia story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower; (ii) Genres 327 $a(iii) Tarquin, Lucrece and Collatine(iv) The rape of Lucrece; (v) Lucrece, Troy and Brutus; Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-19: The Young Man, the Poet and Father Time; (i) Introduction. Petrarch, Sidney and the Elizabethan sonnet; (ii) Narcissus called to account; (iii) The economy of nature, Father Time and the wisdom of Narcissus; Chapter 4 Shakespeare's Sonnets 20-126: The Poet, the Young Man, Androgyny and Friendship; (i) Introduction. Narcissus and Adonis; (ii) Sonnet 20. Fictions and discourses; (iii) Desire and its discontents; (iv) Losing and keeping 327 $aChapter 5 Shakespeare's Sonnets 127-154: The Poet, the Dark Lady and the Young Man(i) Fictions of beauty; (ii) The divided self, misogyny and friendship; (iii) Ending with Cupid; Conclusion; Index 330 $aAlongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also explor 410 0$aLongman medieval and Renaissance library. 606 $aNarrative poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSonnets, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aNarrative poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSonnets, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.3 676 $a821.3 700 $aCousins$b A. D.$f1950-$0889798 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959207403321 996 $aShakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems$94409126 997 $aUNINA