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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2013 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford handbooks of literature
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| Summary: |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be inclusive of the dramatic verse as well, and of Shakespeare's influence as a poet on later generations of writers in English and beyond. Focusing on a broad set of interpretive concerns, the volume tackles general matters of Shakespeare's style, earlier and later; questions of influence from classical, continental, and native sources; the importance of words, line, and rhyme to meaning; the significance of songs and ballads in the drama; the place of gender in the verse, including the relationship of Shakespeare's poetry to the visual arts; the different values attached to speaking 'Shakespeare' in the theatre; and the adaptation of Shakespearean verse (as distinct from performance) into other periods and languages. The largest section, with ten essays, is devoted to the poems themselves: the Sonnets, plus 'A Lover's Complaint', the narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'. If the volume as a whole urges a renewed involvement in the complex matter of Shakespeare's poetry, it does so, as the individual essays testify, by way of responding to critical trends and discoveries made during the last three decades. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Item Description: | "First published 2013. First published in paperback 2016"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 748 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198778011 0198778015 |
| Index Number: | PR2984 |
| CLC: | I561.073-62 |
| Call Number: | I561.073-62/O984-1 |
| Contents: |
Shakespeare's styles / Shakespeare's style in the 1590s / Shakespeare's late style / Shakespeare and the arts of cognition / Fatal Cleopatras and golden apples: economies of wordplay in some Shakespearean 'numbers' / Classical influences / Shakespeare and Italian poetry / Du Bellay and Shakespeare's sonnets / Open voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare / 'Grammar rules' in the sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare / Commonplace Shakespeare: value, vulgarity, and the poetics of increase in Shake-Speares sonnets and Troilus and Cressida / Philomela's marks: Ekphrasis and gender in Shakespeare's poems and plays / Shakespeare, elegy, and epitaph: 1557-1640 / Song in Shakespeare: rhetoric, identity, agency / Shakespeare's popular songs and the great temptations of lesser lyric / Shakespeare's dramatic verse line / Shakespeare's Word Music / Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse / From bad to verse: poetry and spectacle on the modern Shakespearean stage / 'Make my image but an alehouse sign': the poetry of women in Shakespeare's dramatic verse / 'To show, and so to publish': reading, writing, and performing in the narrative poems / Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis / Shame, love, fear, and pride in The rape of Lucrece / The sonnets in the classroom: student, teacher, editor-annotator(s), and cruxes / 'Fortify yourself in your decay': sounding rhyme and rhyming effects in Shakespeare's sonnets / The conceptual investigations of Shakespeare's sonnets / 'Pretty rooms': Shakespeare's sonnets, Elizabethan architecture, and early modern visual design / The poetics of feminine subjectivity in Shakespeare's sonnets and 'A lover's complaint' / Poetry and compassion in Shakespeare's 'A lover's complaint' / Reading 'The phoenix and turtle' / Shakespearean poetry and the romantics / Shakespearean being: the Victorian bard / Shakespeare's loose ends and the contemporary poet / The sound of Shakespeare thinking / Melted in American air / Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare as a French poet / Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's poems in Germany / Negotiating the universal: translations of Shakespeare's poetry in (between) Spain and Spanish America / |