Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems / A.D. Cousins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cousins, A. D., 1950- author.

Series:

Longman medieval and Renaissance library.

Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Poetic works.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.

Narrative poetry, English--History and criticism.

Narrative poetry, English.

Sonnets, English--History and criticism.

Sonnets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also explor

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Venus and Adonis; (i) The minor epic. Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis; (ii) The poem's narrator. Venus and the multiplicity, the otherness of love; (iii) Venus and metamorphosis; (iv) Adonis the rhetorician. Adonis, Narcissus and metamorphosis; (v) Adonis, the narrator and the male gaze. Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Donne's 'Elegy 19'; Chapter 2 Lucrece; (i) Versions of the Lucretia story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower; (ii) Genres

(iii) Tarquin, Lucrece and Collatine(iv) The rape of Lucrece; (v) Lucrece, Troy and Brutus; Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-19: The Young Man, the Poet and Father Time; (i) Introduction. Petrarch, Sidney and the Elizabethan sonnet; (ii) Narcissus called to account; (iii) The economy of nature, Father Time and the wisdom of Narcissus; Chapter 4 Shakespeare's Sonnets 20-126: The Poet, the Young Man, Androgyny and Friendship; (i) Introduction. Narcissus and Adonis; (ii) Sonnet 20. Fictions and discourses; (iii) Desire and its discontents; (iv) Losing and keeping

Chapter 5 Shakespeare's Sonnets 127-154: The Poet, the Dark Lady and the Young Man(i) Fictions of beauty; (ii) The divided self, misogyny and friendship; (iii) Ending with Cupid; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 6, 2014).

ISBN:

1-317-89368-9

1-315-84404-4

1-317-89369-7

9781315844046

OCLC:

884647547