Description
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from reception theory to cultural materialism, and from biographical criticism to queer theory. In addition, James Schiffer's introduction offers a comprehensive survey of 400 years of criticism of these fascinating, enigmatic poems.
About the Author
James Schiffer is currently Professor and Head of the English Department at Northern Michigan University.
Reviews
"unquestionably the essay collection that best represents the Shakespeare sonnet criticism of this last decade. The essays are fresh, exciting, and insightful; unpretentious, solid, and articulate." -- Sixteenth Century Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9780815338932
Author James Schiffer
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 589g