This Companionrepresents 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...
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This Companionrepresents 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. Michael Schoenfeldtis Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan and Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton(1999), Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship(1991), and co-editor of Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton(2003).
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
