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The Sonnets: The State of Play
Contributor(s): Crawforth, Hannah (Editor), Thompson, Ann (Editor), Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth (Editor)
ISBN: 1350094854     ISBN-13: 9781350094857
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
OUR PRICE:   $46.48  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Shakespeare
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.3
Series: Arden Shakespeare the State of Play
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5" W x 8" (0.67 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Crawforth, Hannah: - Hannah Crawforth is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, where her research is primarily concerned with the under-examined political, religious and literary implications of the history of the English language as it was studied in the Renaissance. She is also one of the four faculty members comprising the London Shakespeare Centre, launched at King's in 2009, currently working on several collaborative projects.Thompson, Ann: - ANN THOMPSON is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre and King's College London