Robert Matz

The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780786432196
• ISBN-10: 0786432195
• Artikelnr.: 23016369

Autorenporträt

Robert Matz is an associate professor of English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

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