Afterlife of Shakespeare''s Sonnets

Informationen zum Autor Jane Kingsley-Smith is a Reader at the Roehampton University, London. She is author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge, 2010). Dr Kingsley-Smith has a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is a regular lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. Klappentext An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history. Zusammenfassung This is a unique study of how readers have engaged with Shakespeare's Sonnets over four centuries. Jane Kingsley-Smith reveals the fascinating cultural history of individual Sonnets and explores their belated entry into the Shakespeare canon. The work will appeal to specialists in Shakespeare studies! English poetry and Renaissance literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: why Shakespeare's Sonnets need an afterlife; 1. Loved when they alteration find, 1598-1622; 2. Annals of all-wasting time, 1623-1708; 3. One thing to my purpose nothing, 1709-1816; 4. As with your shadow I with these did play, 1817-1900; 5. A waste of shame, 1901-1997.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Kingsley-Smith, Jane (Roehampton University Kingsley-Smith, Kingsley-Smith Jane
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781107170650
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17065-0
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean