The Sonnets: The State of Play
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2017
312 pages
978-1-4742-7715-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-7715-0 (9781474277150)
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Hannah Crawforth | Elizabeth Scott-Baumann | Clare Whitehead
The Sonnets: The State of Play
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12/2018
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Hannah Crawforth | Elizabeth Scott-Baumann | Clare Whitehead
The Sonnets: The State of Play
The State of Play
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06/2017
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Persons
Hannah Crawforth is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK.
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK.
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK.
Content
Series Preface
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
Introduction - Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Clare Whitehead
Part One: The Sonnets and History
1. Promising Eternitiy in the 1609 Quarto - Cathy Shrank
2.Thomas Thorpe's Shakespeare: 'The Only Begetter' - Lynne Magnusson
3. 'Our brains beguiled': Ecclesiastes and Sonnet 59's Poetics of Temporal Instability - Kristine Johanson
4. Unfulfilled Imperatives in Shakespeare's Sonnets - John Roe
Part Two: The Sonnets in Context
5. Shakespeare's Sonnets as Event - Colin Burrow
6. A Lingering Farewell: Sonnet 87 - Ann Thompson
7. Enduring 'Injurious Time': Alternatives to Immortality and Proleptic Loss in Shakespeare's Sonnets - J.K. Barret
8. 'Thou single wilt prove none': Counting, Succession, and Identity in Shakespeare's Sonnets - Shankar Raman
Part 3: Afterlives of the Sonnets
9. Desire is Pattern - Matthew Harrison
10. Regifting Some Shakespeare Sonnets of Late - Jonathan F.S. Post
11. The Scar on the Face: Ted Hughes Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets - Reiko Oya
12. Shakespeare's Sonnets in the Undergraduate Classroom - Daniel Moss
Afterword - Heather Dubrow
Index
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
Introduction - Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Clare Whitehead
Part One: The Sonnets and History
1. Promising Eternitiy in the 1609 Quarto - Cathy Shrank
2.Thomas Thorpe's Shakespeare: 'The Only Begetter' - Lynne Magnusson
3. 'Our brains beguiled': Ecclesiastes and Sonnet 59's Poetics of Temporal Instability - Kristine Johanson
4. Unfulfilled Imperatives in Shakespeare's Sonnets - John Roe
Part Two: The Sonnets in Context
5. Shakespeare's Sonnets as Event - Colin Burrow
6. A Lingering Farewell: Sonnet 87 - Ann Thompson
7. Enduring 'Injurious Time': Alternatives to Immortality and Proleptic Loss in Shakespeare's Sonnets - J.K. Barret
8. 'Thou single wilt prove none': Counting, Succession, and Identity in Shakespeare's Sonnets - Shankar Raman
Part 3: Afterlives of the Sonnets
9. Desire is Pattern - Matthew Harrison
10. Regifting Some Shakespeare Sonnets of Late - Jonathan F.S. Post
11. The Scar on the Face: Ted Hughes Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets - Reiko Oya
12. Shakespeare's Sonnets in the Undergraduate Classroom - Daniel Moss
Afterword - Heather Dubrow
Index
