• Author: Michael Schoenfeldt
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 1444332066
• Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Page: 521
• View: 6803

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This Companion represents 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.

• Author: William Shakespeare
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category:
• Page: 181
• View: 1932

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• Author: Sunil Kumar Sarker
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
• ISBN: 9788171567256
• Category: Sonnets, English
• Page: 442
• View: 3935

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Though Sonnets Are, Generally, Easy Poems, Shakespeare S Sonnets Are Not, And Very Naturally, He Being A Master-Mind, His Sonnets Are Far From Easy To Understand. The Principal Objective Of This Book Is To Explain The Sonnets For Common Readers, And To Discuss Some Very Topical Questions About Them. The Author Persistently Kept In Mind The Difficulties Of General Readers In Understanding The Sonnets, And So He Meticulously Avoided Pedantry. The Book May Be Deemed To Be Divided Into Two Parts : The First Part Discusses Some Very Important General Topics Relating To The Sonnets; And The Second Part Devotes Itself Entirely To Explaining, Line By Line, The Sonnets, Keeping Close To The Themes Of Them. Difficult Words And Concepts Have Been Carefully Explained. The Texts Of All The 154 Sonnets Have Been Given For The Benefit Of Readers.

• Author: William Shakespeare,Stephen Booth
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• ISBN: 9780300085068
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 583
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The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by critical commentary.

Critical Essays

• Author: James Schiffer
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1135023263
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 496
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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.

• Author: Helen Vendler
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• ISBN: 0674637127
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 672
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Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images

• Author: Kenneth Muir
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1136563776
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 200
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This edition first published in 1979. Discussing Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to sonnets by Italian, French and English poets, Kenneth Muir shows how they were influenced by Shakespeare's reading of Sidney, Erasmus and Ovid and discusses their art in terms of construction, sound patterns and imagery. He considers the relationship of the sonnets to Shakespeare's dramatic writing, while stressing the dramatic element in the sonnets themselves. Finally he surveys the changing attitudes to the sonnets during the last three centuries.

• Author: William Shakespeare
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• ISBN: 1439117241
• Category: Drama
• Page: 704
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A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare’s sonnets and poems, complete with valuable tools for educators. The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of each sonnet and poem -A brief introduction to each sonnet and poem, providing insight into its possible meaning -An index of first lines -Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the sonnets The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

• Author: Dympna Callaghan
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 0470777516
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 176
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This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social and historical circumstances surrounding their creation. Explores the biographical mystery of the identities of the characters addressed. Examines the intangible aspects of each sonnet, such as eroticism and imagination. A helpful appendix offers a summary of each poem with descriptions of key literary figures.

• Author: David Schalkwyk
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN: 1139434233
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: N.A
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David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases this distinction on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. In a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays, Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire, both in the published poems and on the stage and in the context of the early modern period. In a provocative discussion of the question of proper names and naming events in the sonnets and plays, the book seeks to reopen the question of the autobiographical nature of Shakespeare's sonnets.

• Author: William Shakespeare,Helen Hunt,Dr. Barbara A. Mowat,Paul Werstine
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• ISBN: 9780671722876
• Category: Drama
• Page: 432
• View: 7598

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A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets, complete with valuable tools for educators. The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on page facing each sonnet · A brief introduction to each sonnet, providing insight into its possible meaning · An index of first lines · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the sonnets

• Author: J B Leishman
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1135032785
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 256
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First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and contemporaries, notably Spenser, Daniel and Drayton and with John Donne. By discussing their resemblances and differences, a not altogether orthodox picture of Shakespeare's attitude to life is presented, which suggests that he was not as phlegmatic and equable a person as critics have often supposed.

the text of the sonnets, with interpretive essays by Edward Hubler ... [et al.], and including the full text of Oscar Wilde's The portrait of Mr W.H.

• Author: William Shakespeare
• Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Drama
• Page: 346
• View: 2177

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• Author: David West
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• ISBN: 9781585679218
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 368
• View: 8306

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An accessible volume of the bard's poetry and lyrics, presented in a lavish collector's format, features new commentary for modern readers that offers insight into each work's context, argument, and language use.

• Author: Peter Jensen
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• ISBN: 1430309237
• Category: Fiction
• Page: 236
• View: 4101

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1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Shakespeare's Sonnets-Substitution code-1609 Quarto- 2. The Poet William Shakespeare-The Youth Henry Wriothesley-The Dark Lady Aemelia Bessano Lanyer- The Rival Poet Christopher Marlowe-Deciphering- Time and Timeline-Names and Identities.

• Author: Harold Bloom
• Publisher: Infobase Publishing
• ISBN: 1438115865
• Category:
• Page: N.A
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Provides insight into the poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare along with a brief biography.

Self, Love and Art

• Author: Philip Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN: 9780521144636
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 180
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This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.

• Author: N.A
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category:
• Page: 160
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An Introduction

• Author: Robert Matz
• Publisher: McFarland
• ISBN: 0786454032
• Category: Biography & Autobiography
• Page: 248
• View: 8370

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Of Shakespeare’s sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the “turn” in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet’s world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.

• Author: Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
• Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
• ISBN: 9780199256105
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 194
• View: 3032

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The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naive reader will find it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts--in relation to other poetry of the period, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism. Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal for students and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems."