The Sonnets: The State of Play

Crawforth, Hannah (Editor)/ Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth (Editor)/ Whitehead, Clare (Editor)/ Thompson, Ann (Editor)/ Orlin, Lena Cowen (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1350094854 / ISBN 13: 9781350094857

Published by Bloomsbury Arden, 2018

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312 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sonnets: The State of Play
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350094854
• ISBN 13: 9781350094857
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.34 kilograms

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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.

About the Authors

Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK, 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.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, UK.

LENA COWEN ORLIN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA, Washington DC, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.