Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems.
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This very big collection of essays on the Sonnets is especially valuable for its comments on gender and sexuality and its close reading of quite a few of the poems. Schiffer's extensive bibliographic introduction helps to orient a student, fresh to the subject, to basic problems, issues and interpretations. The editor wisely steers clear of endless, fruitless discussion of autobiography.
–The Shakespeare Newsletter, Winter 1999 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
–The Shakespeare Newsletter, Winter 1999 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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James Schiffer is currently Professor and Head of the English Department at Northern Michigan University.
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The debate surrounding Shakespeare's Sonnets has raged on for a long time, and much of the scholarship on them has remained nebulous, repetitive, and overworked. James Schiffer's volume, however, is refreshingly brilliant and provocative: the essays he includes address an array of topics that are often overlooked, while many of the arguments are simultaneously revisionist and visionary, challenging the conventional wisdom that has guided the criticism on the Sonnets for so long. And what's even better, the arguments are beautifully and meticulously presented, crafted by some of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time.
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A common practice in many accounts of the reception history of Shakespeare's Sonnets is to complain, often in tones of comic despair, about the crushing volume of criticism, the mountain of essays, dissertations, chapters, books, poems, plays, and novels on these most problematic of poems-a mountain any surveyor must attempt to climb. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Lover's Complaint, Stephen Booth, Oscar Wilde, English Renaissance, New Haven, Shakespeare Quarterly, Willie Hughes, Heather Dubrow, James Schiffer, Shakespeare's Perjured Eye, Joel Fineman, William Shakespeare, Blakemore Evans, Margreta de Grazia, The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity, George Steevens, Jonathan Goldberg, Echoes of Desire, Mary Fitton, Shakespeare Survey, John Kerrigan, Peter Stallybrass, Pitiful Thrivers, Titus Andronicus New!
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A common practice in many accounts of the reception history of Shakespeare's Sonnets is to complain, often in tones of comic despair, about the crushing volume of criticism, the mountain of essays, dissertations, chapters, books, poems, plays, and novels on these most problematic of poems-a mountain any surveyor must attempt to climb. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private lyric dialogue, procreation sonnets, early modern codes, dark lady poems, ivory rake, neuer die, female complainant, lyric audience, steel bosom, fickle glass, sonnet speaker, young man poems, young man sonnets, golden spade, poetic subjectivity, individual sonnets, speaking breast, careful housewife, fairest creatures, base infection, male beloved, sonnet tradition, rival poet, inner discourse, dark lady sonnets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lover's Complaint, Stephen Booth, Oscar Wilde, English Renaissance, New Haven, Shakespeare Quarterly, Willie Hughes, Heather Dubrow, James Schiffer, Shakespeare's Perjured Eye, Joel Fineman, William Shakespeare, Blakemore Evans, Margreta de Grazia, The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity, George Steevens, Jonathan Goldberg, Echoes of Desire, Mary Fitton, Shakespeare Survey, John Kerrigan, Peter Stallybrass, Pitiful Thrivers, Titus Andronicus New!
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