A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets
- US: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
- 534p.
Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 Shake-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 Sonnets, 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 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 Vicariou s 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.
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Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Sonnets. Sonnets, English -- History and criticism.