The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets / / Steven Monte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Monte, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations

Explores the intricate hidden organisation of Shakespeare’s SonnetsDiscusses Shakespeare as a writer with career aspirations as a poetAnalyses individual poems, especially anthology pieces and minor" sonnets, from new perspectivesExplores Shakespeare’s relations with his poetic contemporariesThis 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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on titles, terminology, and notation -- Introduction: Seeing Things ‘Perspectively’ -- Chapter 1 Stories in and about Shakespeare’s Sonnets -- Chapter 2 The Basic Scheme -- Chapter 3 Poetic Rivalry in Late-Elizabethan England -- Chapter 4 A Triptych for the Third Earl -- Chapter 5 Competing Schemes -- Chapter 6 The Fair-Youth Sonnets, Part 1 -- Chapter 7 The Fair-Youth Sonnets, Part 2 -- Chapter 8 The Mistress Sonnets -- Chapter 9 Complaints of the Heart -- Conclusion: Seeing Things Retrospectively -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Individual Sonnets and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ -- Groups of Sonnets -- Index