Faith D. Acker

First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1590-1790 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them numerous future applications.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000190816
• Artikelnr.: 59851109

Autorenporträt

Faith D. Acker received her doctorate in Renaissance Literature from the University of St Andrews. Subsequently, and while writing this book, she has taught at The University of Sheffield, Cornerstone Academy, Pellissippi State Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Montgomery College, and Signum University. Her additional work on the sonnets' early readers appears in Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (eds. Depledge and Kirwan, 2017) and is forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

The Author to the Reader
Introduction: 'The Meaning' of the Sonnets
The Sonnets, their texts, and their readers
1. The Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare's 'sugred' reputation
Texts and editions
Pilgrim as a sonnet sequence
Shakespeare's vendible name and relevant prints
Supplementing Shakespeare with the classics
Reading and revising the sonnets
2. Reading and Revising Shake-Speare's Sonnets (1609)
Structure, contexts, and paratexts of the 1609 quarto
Thorpe and the critics
Sonnets and sequences: Revisionist love stories
Reading Thorpe's Sonnet 2
Annotating the sonnets
3. The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: Sex, sonnets, and spirituality
Extant manuscript copies of Sonnet 2
Sexual contexts for Sonnet 2
Sonnet 2 in politics and religion
Friends and elegies: Reading Sonnet 2 among epitaphs
4. John Benson's sonnet sequences (Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare.
Gent.)
Benson and Shakespeare
Part I: Eternity of beauty
Part II: Miscellaneity and duality
Part III: A Marriage of perjured minds
Part IV: Classics and imputed works
5. Celebrations of Church and King: An early Cambridge reader
Reading habits and approaches
Cambridge origins
Poems in praise of God
Poems to honour the King
Contextualizing women
For the love of God, not woman
6. Restoration revisions: Musical, dramatic, and miscellany readings
Mountebanks and martyrs: Lawes' musical setting
Gender, duplicity, and eternal passion: Suckling's Brennoralt
Manuscript variants and textual fluidity: Reading and sharing
Extracts, miscellanies, and new contexts: Adapting the sonnets in the
late seventeenth century
7. Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canon
Critical predilections: The autobiographical Shakespeare
Life after Benson: Supplements and supplementarity
Notes and Various Readings: The ultimate supplement
Capell's cento and Shakespeare's language
Collecting Shakespeare: Complete and incomplete canons
8. Edmond Malone: Plotting the Sonnets
The Search for authorial authenticity
Poems and plays
The Editor and his characters
9. Reading the Sonnets after Malone: Independent responses
Debating the poems: Critical annotations
Sonnet sententiae
Reading and editing the eighteenth century
Beyond Malone: The New debate
Sonnet Futures

---

The Author to the Reader

Introduction: 'The Meaning' of the Sonnets

The Sonnets, their texts, and their readers

1. The Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare's 'sugred' reputation


Texts and editions



Pilgrim as a sonnet sequence

Shakespeare's vendible name and relevant prints

Supplementing Shakespeare with the classics

Reading and revising the sonnets


2. Reading and Revising Shake-Speare's Sonnets (1609)


Structure, contexts, and paratexts of the 1609 quarto

Thorpe and the critics

Sonnets and sequences: Revisionist love stories

Reading Thorpe's Sonnet 2

Annotating the sonnets


3. The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: Sex, sonnets, and spirituality


Extant manuscript copies of Sonnet 2

Sexual contexts for Sonnet 2

Sonnet 2 in politics and religion

Friends and elegies: Reading Sonnet 2 among epitaphs


4. John Benson's sonnet sequences (Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.)


Benson and Shakespeare

Part I: Eternity of beauty

Part II: Miscellaneity and duality

Part III: A Marriage of perjured minds

Part IV: Classics and imputed works


5. Celebrations of Church and King: An early Cambridge reader


Reading habits and approaches

Cambridge origins

Poems in praise of God

Poems to honour the King

Contextualizing women

For the love of God, not woman


6. Restoration revisions: Musical, dramatic, and miscellany readings


Mountebanks and martyrs: Lawes' musical setting

Gender, duplicity, and eternal passion: Suckling's Brennoralt

Manuscript variants and textual fluidity: Reading and sharing

Extracts, miscellanies, and new contexts: Adapting the sonnets in the late seventeenth century


7. Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canon


Critical predilections: The autobiographical Shakespeare

Life after Benson: Supplements and supplementarity



Notes and Various Readings: The ultimate supplement

Capell's cento and Shakespeare's language

Collecting Shakespeare: Complete and incomplete canons


8. Edmond Malone: Plotting the Sonnets


The Search for authorial authenticity

Poems and plays

The Editor and his characters


9. Reading the Sonnets after Malone: Independent responses

Debating the poems: Critical annotations

Sonnet sententiae

Reading and editing the eighteenth century

Beyond Malone: The New debate

Sonnet Futures