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This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland.
List of contents
Introduction
Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin
Shaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England
1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentary
William J. Kennedy
2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth century
Carlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi Vuillemin
Performing the English sonnet
3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stage
Guillaume Coatalen
4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From
Love's Labour's Lost to
The Passionate PilgrimSophie ChiariPlacing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced
5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth century
Chris Stamatakis
6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapy
Elisabeth Chaghafi
7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorship
Rémi Vuillemin
Editing the sonnet
8
The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellany
Hugh Gazzard
9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read
Shakes-speares SonnetsAndrew Eastman
About the author
Rémi Vuillemin is Senior Lecturer in English language and literature at Université de Strasbourg, France.
Laetitia Sansonetti is Senior Lecturer in English literature and translation studies at Université Paris Nanterre, France.
Enrica Zanin is Senior Lecturer in comparative early modern literature at Université de Strasbourg, France.
Summary
This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland. -- .
