Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets Criticism

• The Inversion of Cultural Traditions in Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Shakespeare's Greening: The Privacy, Passion and Difficulty of the Sonnets
• Between Michelangelo and Petrarch: Shakespeare's Sonnets of Art
• Truth and Decay in Shakespeare's Sonnets
• The Magic of Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Introduction to The Sonnets
• Thou Maist Have Thy Will: The Sonnets of Shakespeare and His Stepsisters
• Shakespeare's Queer Sonnets and the Forgeries of William Henry Ireland
• Patterns of Consolation in Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-126
  • Introduction
  • Conventional Consolation (Sonnets 1-18)
  • Neoplatonic Consolation (Sonnets 22-42)
  • Absence and the Consolation of Alternation (Sonnets 43-56)
  • Death and the Algebra of Consolation (Sonnets 62-74)
  • The Consolation of Isolation (Sonnets 87-93)
  • Infidelity: the Consolation of Mutability (Sonnets 113-125)
  • Conclusion
• What May Words Do? The Performative of Praise in Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
• The Generic Complexities of A Lover's Complaint and Its Relationship to the Sonnets in Shakespeare's 1609 Volume
• Sonnets (Vol. 51)
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • Introduction to The Sonnets
  • Love And Romance
    • The Friend and the Poet
    • Recognition of Beauty
    • Awareness Lost
  • Self-Love
    • Self-Love and Love Itself
    • Since First Your Eye I Eyed: Shakspeare's Sonnets and the Poetics of Narcissism
  • Voice
    • The Voices and the Audience in Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • Shakespeare's Sonnets: Age in Love and the Goring of Thoughts
  • Further Reading
• Sonnets (Vol. 40)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Superposed Poetics: The Sonnets
    • 'This Poet Lies': Text and Subtext
    • Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd: The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Gender Identity
    • Mel and Sal: Some Problems in Sonnet-Theory
    • Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • The Secret Sharer
    • Traditional and the Individual Sodomite
    • The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Language And Imagery
    • The Innocent Insinuations of Wit: The Strategy of Language in Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • Shakespeare
    • Dramatic Metaphor: The Shakespearean Sonnet
  • Further Reading
• Sonnets (Vol. 62)
  • Introduction
  • Further Reading
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: The Sonnets
    • Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • Shakespeare at Sonnets
  • Criticism: Language And Imagery
    • Money and Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • What May Words Do? The Performative of Praise in Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Criticism: Sonnets To The Fair Young Man
    • Making Love Out of Nothing at All: The Issue of Story in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets
    • Since First Your Eye I Eyed: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Poetics of Narcissism
    • The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Sonnets (Vol. 75)
  • Introduction
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Patronage Art
  • Further Reading
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Sincerity and Subterfuge in Three Shakespearean Sonnet Groups
    • The Function of the Dark Lady in Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare's ‘Perjur'd Eye.’
    • ‘In Thievish Ways’: Tropes and Robbers in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern England
    • Conflicting Monuments: Time, Beyond Time, and the Poetics of Shakespeare's Dramatic and Nondramatic Sonnets