First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them numerous future applications.
First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them numerous future applications.
Faith D. Acker received her doctorate in Renaissance Literature from the University of St Andrews. Subsequently, and while writing this book, she has taught at The University of Sheffield, Cornerstone Academy, Pellissippi State Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Montgomery College, and Signum University. Her additional work on the sonnets¿ early readers appears in Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (eds. Depledge and Kirwan, 2017) and is forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly.
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The Author to the Reader Introduction: 'The Meaning' of the Sonnets The Sonnets, their texts, and their readers 1. The Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare's 'sugred' reputation Texts and editions Pilgrim as a sonnet sequence Shakespeare's vendible name and relevant prints Supplementing Shakespeare with the classics Reading and revising the sonnets 2. Reading and Revising Shake-Speare's Sonnets (1609) Structure, contexts, and paratexts of the 1609 quarto Thorpe and the critics Sonnets and sequences: Revisionist love stories Reading Thorpe's Sonnet 2 Annotating the sonnets 3. The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: Sex, sonnets, and spirituality Extant manuscript copies of Sonnet 2 Sexual contexts for Sonnet 2 Sonnet 2 in politics and religion Friends and elegies: Reading Sonnet 2 among epitaphs 4. John Benson's sonnet sequences (Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.) Benson and Shakespeare Part I: Eternity of beauty Part II: Miscellaneity and duality Part III: A Marriage of perjured minds Part IV: Classics and imputed works 5. Celebrations of Church and King: An early Cambridge reader Reading habits and approaches Cambridge origins Poems in praise of God Poems to honour the King Contextualizing women For the love of God, not woman 6. Restoration revisions: Musical, dramatic, and miscellany readings Mountebanks and martyrs: Lawes' musical setting Gender, duplicity, and eternal passion: Suckling's Brennoralt Manuscript variants and textual fluidity: Reading and sharing Extracts, miscellanies, and new contexts: Adapting the sonnets in the late seventeenth century 7. Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canon Critical predilections: The autobiographical Shakespeare Life after Benson: Supplements and supplementarity Notes and Various Readings: The ultimate supplement Capell's cento and Shakespeare's language Collecting Shakespeare: Complete and incomplete canons 8. Edmond Malone: Plotting the Sonnets The Search for authorial authenticity Poems and plays The Editor and his characters 9. Reading the Sonnets after Malone: Independent responses Debating the poems: Critical annotations Sonnet sententiae Reading and editing the eighteenth century Beyond Malone: The New debate Sonnet Futures
The Author to the Reader Introduction: 'The Meaning' of the Sonnets The Sonnets, their texts, and their readers 1. The Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare's 'sugred' reputation Texts and editions Pilgrim as a sonnet sequence Shakespeare's vendible name and relevant prints Supplementing Shakespeare with the classics Reading and revising the sonnets 2. Reading and Revising Shake-Speare's Sonnets (1609) Structure, contexts, and paratexts of the 1609 quarto Thorpe and the critics Sonnets and sequences: Revisionist love stories Reading Thorpe's Sonnet 2 Annotating the sonnets 3. The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: Sex, sonnets, and spirituality Extant manuscript copies of Sonnet 2 Sexual contexts for Sonnet 2 Sonnet 2 in politics and religion Friends and elegies: Reading Sonnet 2 among epitaphs 4. John Benson's sonnet sequences (Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.) Benson and Shakespeare Part I: Eternity of beauty Part II: Miscellaneity and duality Part III: A Marriage of perjured minds Part IV: Classics and imputed works 5. Celebrations of Church and King: An early Cambridge reader Reading habits and approaches Cambridge origins Poems in praise of God Poems to honour the King Contextualizing women For the love of God, not woman 6. Restoration revisions: Musical, dramatic, and miscellany readings Mountebanks and martyrs: Lawes' musical setting Gender, duplicity, and eternal passion: Suckling's Brennoralt Manuscript variants and textual fluidity: Reading and sharing Extracts, miscellanies, and new contexts: Adapting the sonnets in the late seventeenth century 7. Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canon Critical predilections: The autobiographical Shakespeare Life after Benson: Supplements and supplementarity Notes and Various Readings: The ultimate supplement Capell's cento and Shakespeare's language Collecting Shakespeare: Complete and incomplete canons 8. Edmond Malone: Plotting the Sonnets The Search for authorial authenticity Poems and plays The Editor and his characters 9. Reading the Sonnets after Malone: Independent responses Debating the poems: Critical annotations Sonnet sententiae Reading and editing the eighteenth century Beyond Malone: The New debate Sonnet Futures
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