The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry

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Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains 38 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198778011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/14/2016
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 776
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Jonathan F. S. Post is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the founding director of the UCLA Summer Shakespeare Program in Stratford and London. He is the author of a number of critical studies with a special focus on poetry of the early modern and modern periods—most recently English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century (1999), and Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric (2002). He is currently writing a critical study of Anthony Hecht's poetry for Oxford University Press. He has been a Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and twice a Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation. He chaired the UCLA English Department from 1989 to 1993.

Table of Contents

Preface, Jonathan PostPart I: Style and Language1. Shakespeare's Styles, Gordon Teskey2. Shakespeare's Style in The 1590s, Goran Stanivukovic3. Shakespeare's Late Style, R. Braunmuller4. Shakespeare and the Arts of Cognition, Sophie Read5. Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples: Economies of Wordplay in Some Shakespearean Numbers, Margaret FergusonPart II: Inheritance and Invention6. Classical Influences, Colin Burrow7. Shakespeare and Italian Poetry, Anthony Mortimer8. Du Bellay and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Anne Lake Prescott9. Open Voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare, Linda Gregerson10. Grammar Rules in the Sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare, Alysia Kolentsis11. Commonplace Shakespeare: Value, Vulgarity, and the Poetics of Increase in Shake-speares Sonnets and Troilus and Cressida, Catherine Nicholson12. Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis and Gender in Shakespeare s Poems and Plays, Marion Wells13. Shakespeare, Elegy, and Epitaph: 1557-1640, John KerriganPart III: Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads14. Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency, Gavin Alexander15. Shakespeare's Popular Songs and The Great Temptations of Lesser Lyric, Steven NewmanPart IV: Speaking on Stage16. Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Line, Abigail Rokison17. Shakespeare's Word Music, Paul Edmondson18. Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse, Bruce R. Smith19. From bad to verse: poetry and spectacle on the modern Shakespearean stage, Jeremy Lopez20. Make my image but an alehouse sign : The Poetry of Women in Shakespeare s Drama, Alison FindlayV. Reading Shakespeare s Poems21. To show. . .And so to publish: Reading, Writing, and Performing in the Narrative Poems, Charlotte Scott22. Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis, Subha Mukherji23. Shame, Fear, and Love in The Rape of Lucrece, Joshua Scodel24. The Sonnets in the Classroom: Student, Teacher, Editor-Annotator(s), and Cruxes, David Sofield25. Fortify yourself in your decay: Sounding Rhyme and Rhyming Effects in Shakespeare's Sonnets, L. E. Semler26. The Conceptual Investigations of Sonnets, David Schalkwyk27. Pretty Rooms: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design, Russ McDonald28. The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint', Melissa Sanchez29. Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's ‘A Lover's Complaint', Katharine Craik30. Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle', John KerriganVI: Later Reflections31. Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics, Michael O Neill32. Shakespearean Being: The Victorian Bard, Herbert F. Tucker33. Shakespeare's Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet, Peter Robinson34. The Sound of Shakespeare Thinking, James Longenbach35. Melted in American Air, Judith HallVII: Translating Shakespeare36. Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare, Efrain Kristal37. Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Poems in Germany, Christa Jansohn38. Negotiating the Universal: Translations of Shakespeare s Poetry In (Between) Spain and Spanish America, Belen Bistue
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