Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight 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.

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Author:   Jonathan Post (Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.478kg
ISBN:  

9780199607747

ISBN 10:   0199607745
Pages:   776
Publication Date:   18 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Jonathan Post: Preface Part I: Style and Language 1: Gordon Teskey: Shakespeare's Styles 2: Goran Stanivukovic: Shakespeare's Style in The 1590s 3: R. Braunmuller: Shakespeare's Late Style 4: Sophie Read: Shakespeare and the Arts of Cognition 5: Margaret Ferguson: Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples: Economies of Wordplay in Some Shakespearean Numbers Part II: Inheritance and Invention 6: Colin Burrow: Classical Influences 7: Anthony Mortimer: Shakespeare and Italian Poetry 8: Anne Lake Prescott: Du Bellay and Shakespeare's Sonnets 9: Linda Gregerson: Open Voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare 10: Alysia Kolentsis: Grammar Rules in the Sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare 11: Catherine Nicholson: Commonplace Shakespeare: Value, Vulgarity, and the Poetics of Increase in Shake-speares Sonnets and Troilus and Cressida 12: Marion Wells: Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis and Gender in Shakespeare s Poems and Plays 13: John Kerrigan: Shakespeare, Elegy, and Epitaph: 1557-1640 Part III: Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads 14: Gavin Alexander: Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency 15: Steven Newman: Shakespeare's Popular Songs and The Great Temptations of Lesser Lyric Part IV: Speaking on Stage 16: Abigail Rokison: Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Line 17: Paul Edmondson: Shakespeare's Word Music 18: Bruce R. Smith: Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse 19: Jeremy Lopez: From bad to verse: poetry and spectacle on the modern Shakespearean stage 20: Alison Findlay: Make my image but an alehouse sign : The Poetry of Women in Shakespeare s Drama V. Reading Shakespeare s Poems 21: Charlotte Scott: To show. . .And so to publish: Reading, Writing, and Performing in the Narrative Poems 22: Subha Mukherji: Outgrowing Adonis, outgrowing Ovid: the disorienting narrative of Venus and Adonis 23: Joshua Scodel: Shame, Fear, and Love in The Rape of Lucrece 24: David Sofield: The Sonnets in the Classroom: Student, Teacher, Editor-Annotator(s), and Cruxes 25: L. E. Semler: Fortify yourself in your decay: Sounding Rhyme and Rhyming Effects in Shakespeare's Sonnets 26: David Schalkwyk: The Conceptual Investigations of Sonnets 27: Russ McDonald: Pretty Rooms: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design 28: Melissa Sanchez: The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' 29: Katharine Craik: Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's `A Lover's Complaint' 30: John Kerrigan: Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle' VI: Later Reflections 31: Michael O Neill: Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics 32: Herbert F. Tucker: Shakespearean Being: The Victorian Bard 33: Peter Robinson: Shakespeare's Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet 34: James Longenbach: The Sound of Shakespeare Thinking 35: Judith Hall: Melted in American Air VII: Translating Shakespeare 36: Efraín Kristal: Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare 37: Christa Jansohn: Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Poems in Germany 38: Belén Bistué: Negotiating the Universal: Translations of Shakespeare s Poetry In (Between) Spain and Spanish America

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One of the most striking features of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry, a wonderfully rich collection, in thirty-eight chapters, is the evident passiona of the contributors. Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Jonathan F. S. Post is Distinguished Professor of English at 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 1989-1993.

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