Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets

Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 1438115865

Provides insight into the poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare along with a brief biography.

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems
Author: A. D. Cousins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317893689

Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also explored.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author: James Schiffer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135023255

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.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author: Kenneth Muir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136563776

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.

The Sonnets

The Sonnets
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2009
Genre: Sonnets, English
ISBN: 1438112599

Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's sonnets, excerpts from some of the sonnets, and biographical information.

The Sonnets

The Sonnets
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2006-06-22
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1139835394

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. In a series of focused readings he probes the sonnets' sexual and temperamental ambiguity as well as their complex textual history, and explores the difficulties editors face when modernising the spelling, punctuation and layout of the 1609 quarto. Orgel reminds us that the order in which the sonnets were composed bears no relation to the order in which they appear in the quarto and he warns against reading them biographically. This edition retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his notes and commentary.

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance
Author: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317056442

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.