Sonnets (Vol. 40) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Booth, Stephen. An Essay on Shakespeare 's Sonnets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, 218 p.
Identifies a system of organization in Shakespeare's sonnets based on overlapping patterns of form, logic, ideas, syntax, rhythm, and phonics. This seminal analysis continues to be frequently cited nearly thirty years after its publication.
Dubrow, Heather. "Petrarchan Executors: Sidney, Shakespeare, Wroth." In Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses, pp. 99-161. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Examines evidence of both Petrarchism and anti-Petrarchism in Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that the principle attacks on Petrarchism appear in Sonnets 127 through 154.
Felperin, Howard. "Toward a Poststructuralist Practice: A Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets." In Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory, pp. 147-99. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.
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