Description
- An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars.
- Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets.
- Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases.
- Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.
About the Author
Michael Schoenfeldt is Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan and Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton (1999), Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (1991), and co-editor of Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton (2003).
Reviews
"Of making many reference books about Shakespeare there is no end, and Blackwell, a leader in the field of reference books on literature and other topics, has produced a large and expensive Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Chronique)
"This title provides a solid introduction to key concepts and ways of studying the work of an author who whose reputation is so great it is often difficult for readers new to the works to know where to begin.... The quality of all the essays is very high." (Reference Reviews, Issue 4 2008)
"Michael Schoenfeldt's compilation of twenty-five critical essays takes into account the most important issues concerning Shakespeare's sonnets: historical, interpretive, biographical, and editorial ... Several familiar themes in Sonnet criticism get fresh readings here ... it is obviously impossible to do justice here to all of the essays ... it is a valuable [guide] to the current state of criticism and scholarship." (Renaissance Quarterly)
"This is generally an excellently structured collection of essays." (Notes and Queries)
Book Information
ISBN 9781444332063
Author Michael Schoenfeldt
Format Paperback
Page Count 544
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 934g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 173mm * 29mm
