| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 748 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Oxford handbooks of literature |
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Oxford handbooks of literature.
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| Contents |
List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Part I. Style and Language -- 1. Shakespeare's Styles / Gordon Teskey -- 2. Shakespeare's Style in the 1590s / Goran Stanivukovic -- 3. Shakespeare's Late Style / A.R. Braunmuller -- 4. Shakespeare and the Arts of Cognition / Sophie Read -- 5. Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples: Economies of Wordplay in Some Shakespearean 'Numbers' / Margaret Ferguson -- Part II. Inheritance and Invention -- 6. Classical Influences / Colin Burrow -- 7. Shakespeare and Italian Poetry / Anthony Mortimer -- 8. Du Bellay and Shakespeare's Sonnets / Anne Lake Prescott -- 9. Open Voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare / Linda Gregerson -- 10. 'Grammar Rules' in the Sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare / Alysia Kolentsis -- 11. Commonplace Shakespeare: Value, Vulgarity, and the Poetics of Increase in Shake-Speares Sonnets and Troilus and Cressida / Catherine Nicholson -- 12. Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis and Gender in Shakespeare's Poems and Plays / Marion Wells -- 13. Shakespeare, Elegy, and Epitaph: 1557-1640 / John Kerrigan -- Part III. Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads -- 14. Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency / Gavin Alexander -- 15. Shakespeare's Popular Songs and the Great Temptations of Lesser Lyric / Steve Newman -- Part IV. Speaking on Stage -- 16. Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Line / Abigail Rokison -- 17. Shakespeare's Word Music / Paul Edmondson -- 18. Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse / Bruce R. Smith -- 19. From Bad to Verse: Poetry and Spectacle on the Modern Shakespearean Stage / Jeremy Lopez -- 20. 'Make My Image but an Alehouse Sign: The Poetry of Women in Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse / Alison Findlay -- Part V. Reading Shakespeare's Poems -- 21. 'To Show & hellip; And So to Publish': Reading, Writing, and Performing in the Narrative Poems / Charlotte Scott -- 22. Outgrowing Adonis, Outgrowing Ovid: The Disorienting Narrative of Venus and Adonis / Subha Mukherji -- 23. Shame, Love, Fear, and Pride in The Rape of Lucrece / Joshua Scodel -- 24. The Sonnets in the Classroom: Student, Teacher, Editor-Annotator(s), and Cruxes / David Sofield -- 25. 'Fortify Yourself in Your Decay': Sounding Rhyme and Rhyming Effects in Shakespeare's Sonnets / L.E. Semler -- 26. The Conceptual Investigations of Shakespeare's Sonnets / David Schalkwyk -- 27. 'Pretty Rooms': Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design / Russ McDonald -- 28. The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' / Melissa E. Sanchez -- 29. Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint' / Katharine A. Craik -- 30. Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle' / John Kerrigan -- Part VI. Later Reflections -- 31. Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics / Michael O'Neill -- 32. Shakespearean Being: The Victorian Bard / Herbert F. Tucker -- 33. Shakespeare's Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet / Peter Robinson -- 34. The Sound of Shakespeare Thinking / James Longenbach -- 35. Melted in American Air / Judith Hall -- Part VII. Translating Shakespeare -- 36. Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare as a French Poet / Efrain Kristal -- 37. Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Poems in Germany / Christa Jansohn -- 38. Negotiating the Universal: Translations of Shakespeare's Poetry In (Between) Spain and Spanish America / Belén Bistué -- Index |
| Summary |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be inclusive of the dramatic verse as well, and of Shakespeare's influence as a poet on later generations of writers in English and beyond. Focusing on a broad set of interpretive concerns, the volume tackles general matters of Shakespeare's style, earlier and later; questions of influence from classical, continental, and native sources; the importance of words, line, and rhyme to meaning; the significance of songs and ballads in the drama; the place of gender in the verse, including the relationship of Shakespeare's poetry to the visual arts; the different values attached to speaking 'Shakespeare' in the theatre; and the adaptation of Shakespearean verse (as distinct from performance) into other periods and languages. The largest section, with ten essays, is devoted to the poems themselves: the Sonnets, plus 'A Lover's Complaint', the narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'. If the volume as a whole urges a renewed involvement in the complex matter of Shakespeare's poetry, it does so, as the individual essays testify, by way of responding to critical trends and discoveries made during the last three decades. -- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Poetic works.
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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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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Criticism and interpretation
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English poetry -- Early modern
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Narrative poetry, English
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191756634 |
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0191756636 |
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0191665053 |
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9780191665059 |
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