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The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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This book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries. The fundamental reason why his schemes have gone unnoticed is historical: within decades of his death, conventions of sonnet sequences became unfamiliar, and they have largely remained so since. Weaving together ideas of the Sonnets as a free-standing sequence and as a sonnet sequence among other poets’ complex sequences, we discover new insights into Shakespeare’s career as a poet.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Note on titles, terminology, and notation
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Introduction: Seeing Things ‘Perspectively’
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Chapter 1 Stories in and about Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Chapter 2 The Basic Scheme
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Chapter 3 Poetic Rivalry in Late-Elizabethan England
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Chapter 4 A Triptych for the Third Earl
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Chapter 5 Competing Schemes
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Chapter 6 The Fair-Youth Sonnets, Part 1
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Chapter 7 The Fair-Youth Sonnets, Part 2
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Chapter 8 The Mistress Sonnets
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Chapter 9 Complaints of the Heart
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Conclusion: Seeing Things Retrospectively
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Appendices
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Individual Sonnets and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’
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Groups of Sonnets
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Index
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March 24, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781474481496
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344
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Keywords for this book
Literary Studies
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
