2. Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Note viii
4. Contents ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: Love's Labour's Lost and the Sonnets 31
7. 2. Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory 68
8. 3. Othello and the Problematics of Love 135
9. 4. Antony and Cleopatra: The Significance of Style 168
10. 5. Hamlet: Reflections on an Anatomy of Melancholy 208
11. 6. Perspectives on Pastoral: Romance, Comic and Tragic 243
12. 7. "Nature's Above Art in that Respect": Limits of the Pastoral Pattern 284
13. 8. Forms and Their Meanings: "Monumental Mock'ry" 317
14. Epilogue 351
15. Index 363
16. Backmatter 371