Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays [Paperback]

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: 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.

unquestionably the essay collection that best represents the Shakespeare sonnet criticism of this last decade. The essays are fresh, exciting, and insightful; unpretentious, solid, and articulate. -- Sixteenth Century JournalJames Schiffer is currently Professor and Head of the English Department at Northern Michigan University.Table of Contents General Editor's Introduction, Illustrations, Preface, Contributor List Part I: Introduction Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Survey of Criticism, Part II: Recent Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Peter Stallybrass, The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Margretta de Grazia, Incertanties now crown themselves assur'd: The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets, The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets, George Wright, Part III. New Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Shakespeare's Petrarchism Gordon Braden, I am thalsÃ