Roland Weidle (Germany Ruhr University)

A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Produktbeschreibung

"This comprehensive guide provides readers with the necessary tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences. It combines close readings of more than 100 sonnets with a study of the literary tradition, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the sequence, to enable readers not only to disentangle the complex relationships of the poems' characters but also to appreciate their intricate philosophical, sensual and also subversive qualities. It includes a guide to preparing a Shakespeare sonnet for interpretation, besides charts and tables identifying and summarizing the sequence's mini-narratives, groups, addressees and themes"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781350382831
• ISBN-10: 1350382833
• Artikelnr.: 70103352

Autorenporträt

Roland Weidle

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
I CONTEXT AND FORMS
1. Sonnet Tradition
2. The Text
Date
The 1609 Quarto
Early Editions of the Sonnets
The Sonnets as Biography?
3. The Sequence, Dramatis Personae and Form
The Sequence
Dramatis Personae
The Shakespearean Sonnet
II THEMES
4. Preservation
Procreation
The Limits of Procreation
5. Writing
Imitatio vs. Inventio
Uses of Poetry
The Rival Poet and the Marketplace
Petrarchism
6. Desire
Irrational and Contagious Desire
Desire for the Youth
Desire for the Mistress
Triangular Desire
7. Deception
Deceptive Desire
Deception: Speaker and Youth
Deception: Speaker and Mistress
Poetry as Deception
8. Imagination
The Imagined Youth
The Imagined Mistress
9. By Way of a Conclusion
Appendix
1. Pairs, Sequences, Groups and Theme Clusters
2. Conjectured Dates of Composition for the Sonnets
3. Addressees of the Sonnets
4. A step-by-step Approach to Sonnet 75
5. Model Interpretation of Sonnet 106
References and Commentary on Key Works
Index