Shakespeare's Sonnets
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 2004
- ISBN 9780199256112
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 204x135x11 mm
- Weight 246 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 halftones 0
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Short description:
Written in an accessible and attractive style, this book offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It considers questions often raised about them - do they reflect Shakespeare's personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female, be identified? What do they tell us about Shakespeare's sexuality? How do they relate to the literary tradition? How original are they in technique and in subject matter? Avoiding literary jargon, Shakespeare's Sonnets is a must read for all students of English Literature.
MoreLong description:
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 naïve 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.
highly acclaimed.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Early Publication of the Sonnets
History and Emergence of the Sonnet as a Literary Form
The Sonnets in Relation to Shakespeare's Life
The Form of Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Artistry of the Sonnets
Content of the Sonnets
The Sonnets as Theatre
The Place of 'A Lover's Complaint'
Later Publication of the Sonnets
Critical Reputation of the Sonnets
Ways in which Writers have Engaged Creatively with the Sonnets
Survey of More Recent Current Sonnet Criticism Treated Thematically
Sonnets and Performance
Conclusion
Further Reading
