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Title The sonnets : the state of play / edited by Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Clare Whitehead
Published London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 288 pages)
Series The Arden Shakespeare state of play series
Arden Shakespeare state of play series.
Contents Promising eternity in the 1609 Quarto / Cathy Shrank -- Thomas Thorpe's Shakespeare: 'the only begetter' / Lynne Magnusson -- 'Our brains beguiled': Ecclesiastes and Sonnet 59's poetics of temporal instability / Kristine Johanson -- Unfulfilled imperatives in Shakespeare's sonnets / John Roe -- Shakespeare's sonnets as event / Colin Burrow -- A lingering farewell: Sonnet 87 / Ann Thompson -- Enduring 'injurious time': alternatives to immortality and proleptic loss in Shakespeare's sonnets / J.K. Barret -- 'Thou single wilt prove none': counting, succession and identity in Shakespeare's sonnets / Shankar Raman -- Desire is pattern / Matthew Harrison -- Regifting some Shakespeare sonnets of late / Jonathan F.S. Post -- The scar on the face: Ted Hughes reads Shakespeare's sonnets / Reiko Oya -- Shakespeare's sonnets in the undergraduate classroom / Daniel Moss -- Afterword / Heather Dubrow
Summary "Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volume showcases the range of current debate and ideas surrounding these still startling poems. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key themes and topics covered include: Textual issues and editing the sonnets ; Reception, interpretation and critical history of the sonnets ; The place of the sonnets in teaching ; Critical approaches and close reading ; Memorialisation and monument-making ; Contemporary poetry and the Sonnets. All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what is exciting and challenging about Shakespeare's Sonnets. The approach, based on an individual poetic form, reflects how the sonnets are most commonly studied and taught"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
SUBJECT Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
Shakespeare studies & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Form Electronic book
Author Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980- editor.
Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth, 1982- editor.
Whitehead, Clare, editor.
ISBN 9781474277150
1474277152
9781474277143
1474277144