A companion to Shakespeare's sonnets /
Contributor(s): Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture: 45.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007, (2010)Description: xi, 521 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1405121556; 9781405121552:; 9781405121552; 9781405177412; 1405177411; 9780470997017; 047099701X.Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | Sonnets, English -- History and criticism | Criticism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Sonnet form and sonnet sequence. 1. The value of the sonnets / Stephen Booth -- 2. Formal pleasure in the sonnets / Helen Vendler -- 3. The incomplete narrative of Shakespeare's sonnets / James Schiffer -- 4. Revolution in Shakes-speares sonnets / Margreta de Grazia -- pt. II. Shakespeare and his predecessors. 5. The refusal to be judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare / Richard Strier -- 6. "Dressing old words new"? Re-evaluating the "Delian structure" / Heather Dubrow -- 7. Confounded by winter : speeding time in Shakespeare's sonnets / Dympna Callaghan -- pt. III. Editorial theory and biographical inquiry : editing the sonnets. 8. Shake-speares sonnets, Shakespeare's connets, and Shakespearean biography / Richard Dutton -- 9. Mr. who he? / Stephen Orgel -- 10. Editing the sonnets / Colin Burrow -- 11. William Empson and the sonnets / Lars Engle -- pt. IV. The sonnets in manuscript and print. 12. Shakespeare's sonnets and the manuscript circulation of texts in early modern England / Arthur F. Marotti -- 13. The sonnets and book history / Marcy L. North -- pt. V. Models of desire in the sonnets. 14. Shakespeare's love of objects / Douglas Trevor -- 15. Tender distance : Latinity and desire in Shakespeare's sonnets / Bradin Cormack -- 16. Fickle glass / Rayna Kalas -- 17. "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" : mapping the "emotional regime" of Shakespeare's sonnets / Jyotsna G. Singh -- pt. VI. Ideas of darkness in the sonnets. 18. Rethinking Shakespeare's dark lady / Ilona Bell -- 19. Flesh colors and Shakespeare's sonnets / Elizabeth D. Harvey -- pt. VII. Memory and repetition in the sonnets. 20. Voicing the young man : memory, forgetting, and subjectivity in the procreation sonnets / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. -- 21. "Full character'd" : competing forms of memory in Shakespeare's sonnets / Amanda Watson -- pt. VIII. The sonnets in/and the plays. 22. Halting sonnets : poetry and theater in Much ado about nothing / Patrick Cheney -- 23. Personal identity and vicarious experience in Shakespeare's sonnets / William Flesch -- pt. 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 complaint / Margaret Healy -- 25. The enigma of A lover's complaint / Catherine Bates -- Appendix: the 1609 text of Shakespeare's sonnets and A lover's complaint.
Shakespeare's sonnets can provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. This text considers the form, sequence and content of the sonnets, and the literary context in which they were produced.