Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.
Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.
Robert Matz is an associate professor of English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Section I: "This Powerful Rhyme" 1. Mirrors of Courtesy 2. Educating the Courtier 3. Love, or Literary Credential? 4. In the Shadow of Abundance 5. Dedicated Words 6. He That Buys Must Sell 7. Thy True-telling Friend 8. From Form to Feeling Section II: "A Man Right Fair" 9. Before Homosexuality 10. The King Loved Him Well 11. Marriages and Men 12. "Eternal Lines": Marriage or Poetry? 13. "Being Your Slave" 14. Friendship and Its Flatteries 15. But Did They Have Sex? Section III: "A Woman Coloured Ill" 16. Gynerasty.. 17. Saucy Jacks 18. Weaker Vessels. 19. A Reproach of Their Own 20. The Black Mistress: A Renaissance Common Place 21. More Perjured I? 22. "The Expense of Spirit" 23. Fair Is Foul 24. Sonnet 20: A Reprise Section IV: "So Long Lives This" 25. The Sonnets Today 26. From "Sweet Boy" to "Sweet Love" 27. "Piteous Constraint to Read Such Stuff" 28. A Lover and a Man 29. The Science of Sonnets 30. Wilde Sonnets. 31. Love Poetry at Last Coda: Universal Shakespeare? Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Section I: "This Powerful Rhyme" 1. Mirrors of Courtesy 2. Educating the Courtier 3. Love, or Literary Credential? 4. In the Shadow of Abundance 5. Dedicated Words 6. He That Buys Must Sell 7. Thy True-telling Friend 8. From Form to Feeling Section II: "A Man Right Fair" 9. Before Homosexuality 10. The King Loved Him Well 11. Marriages and Men 12. "Eternal Lines": Marriage or Poetry? 13. "Being Your Slave" 14. Friendship and Its Flatteries 15. But Did They Have Sex? Section III: "A Woman Coloured Ill" 16. Gynerasty.. 17. Saucy Jacks 18. Weaker Vessels. 19. A Reproach of Their Own 20. The Black Mistress: A Renaissance Common Place 21. More Perjured I? 22. "The Expense of Spirit" 23. Fair Is Foul 24. Sonnet 20: A Reprise Section IV: "So Long Lives This" 25. The Sonnets Today 26. From "Sweet Boy" to "Sweet Love" 27. "Piteous Constraint to Read Such Stuff" 28. A Lover and a Man 29. The Science of Sonnets 30. Wilde Sonnets. 31. Love Poetry at Last Coda: Universal Shakespeare? Notes Bibliography Index
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