Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical EssaysJames Schiffer Routledge, 2013 M04 15 - 496 páginas 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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... woman follow it” (Sonnets 430). Readers who discern a continuous narrative can be further subdivided according to their stands on various issues. For example, there is considerable difference of opinion about the social class of the ...
... woman of African or West Indian descent (see Marvin Hunt's essay in this volume). Although no one questions the affair between poet and dark lady, furthermore, critics are not unanimous about whether the young friend has a sexual ...
... woman instead of a man” (Rollins 2: 20). Benson provided the following preface to his collection: To the Reader: I Here presume (under favour) to present to your view, some excellent and sweetely composed Poems, of Master William ...
... of them direct sonnets from the first group of the 1609 Quarto (sonnets 1-126) to a woman. Furthermore, because none of the sonnets in question specifies the gender of the beloved, Benson had no reason to believe 18 James Schiffer.
... woman instead of a man' from 'some' to 'many'. Rollins gives three examples as if there were countless others, but three is all there are and those three appear to have been made to avoid solecism rather than homoeroticism. De Grazia ...