Shakespeare : the sonnets
Focusing on Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, this title adopts a thematic approach to the 'Sonnets', guiding students through detailed textual analyses, giving contextual frameworks for interpreting the poems, and helping them to examine the development and characteristics of sonnet form
Print Book, English, 2007
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [England], 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 254 pages ; 23 cm.
9781403992406, 9781403992413, 1403992401, 140399241X
123798618
pt. 1. Analysing Shakespeare's sonnets
1. Love, or what you will
2. Time : to posterity and beyond
3. Art : clever, very
4. The rival poet(s) : a lesson in tightropes?
5. Fair's fair : the dark mistresses
pt. 2. The context and the critics
6. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan sonnet
7. Humanism, rhetoric and poetry
8. Some critical responses to the sonnets