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The Sonnets: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare The State of Play)

The Sonnets: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare The State of Play)

by HannahCrawforth (Editor), Clare Whitehead (Editor), ElizabethScott-Baumann (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2017

    $172.85
Synopsis

Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volume showcases the range of current debate and ideas surrounding these still startling poems. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key themes and topics covered include: Textual issues and editing the sonnets Reception, interpretation and critical history of the sonnets The place of the sonnets in teaching Critical approaches and close reading Memorialisation and monument-making Contemporary poetry and the Sonnets All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what is exciting and challenging about Shakespeare's Sonnets. The approach, based on an individual poetic form, reflects how the sonnets are most commonly studied and taught.

$172.85

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 308
 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 01 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 1474277136
ISBN 13: 9781474277136
Book Overview: A collection of newly commissioned essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets, designed to showcase current debates and ideas surrounding them from a range of international scholars.

Media Reviews
An exemplary volume, ideal for classroom use and filled with suggestive pointers toward new directions in scholarship on the sonnets by a well-balanced assembly of leading scholars. The volume's subtitle could not be more apt, in that the essays collectively exhibit both the state of methodologies in circulation and the play therein that finds new ways of navigating the literary corpus. The editors' lucid introduction is ideally paired with Heather Dubrow's afterword, which points up the individual and collective merits of the contributions with laser-like precision. * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
Author Bio
Hannah Crawforth is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK. Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King's College London, UK.