Description
An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.
About the Author
Jane Kingsley-Smith is a Reader at the Roehampton University, London. She is author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2010). Dr Kingsley-Smith has a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is a regular lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe.
Reviews
'Kingsley-Smith's fascinating and exhaustive exploration of literary taste invites serious students of Shakespeare into the world of audience participation and interpretation.' M. H. Kealy, Choice
'Excellent.' Katherine Craik, Times Literary Supplement
'The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets is a valuable book ... It significantly deepens and widens our understanding of the sonnets' complex history of reception along the chronological lines indicated above.' Jonathan F. S. Post, Modern Philology
'A particular forte of Kingsley-Smith's book is her ability to read the poems as they might have struck their original readers coming upon them for the first time, without any preconceived ideas about Dark Ladies and Fair Friends.' Paul JCM Franssen, Cahiers Elisabethains
Book Information
ISBN 9781009060066
Author Jane Kingsley-Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 430g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 16mm