| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : the sonnets -- Performatives : the sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra and As you like it -- Embodiment : the sonnets, Love's labour's lost, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night -- Interiority : the sonnets, Hamlet and King Lear -- Names : the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Transformations : the sonnets and All's well that ends well |
| Summary |
David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. Schalkwyk provides a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) fast |
| Subject |
Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
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Autobiography in literature.
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Speech in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Autobiography in literature
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Sonnets, English
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Speech in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
051106442X |
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9780511064425 |
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0511072880 |
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9780511072888 |
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0511120222 |
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9780511120220 |
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9780521811156 |
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0521811155 |
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9781107132566 |
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1280161094 |
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9781280161094 |
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0511148224 |
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9780511148224 |
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0511305222 |
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9780511305221 |
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0511483945 |
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9780511483943 |
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