First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790

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AvFaith D. Acker

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For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the religious, political, and humanist values by which they lived. Other seventeenth- and eighteenth- century readers, such as stationers and editors, balanced their personal literary preferences against the imagined or actual interests of the literate public to whom they marketed carefully curated editions of the sonnets, often successfully. Whether public or private, however, many disparate sonnet interpretations from the sonnets’ first two centuries in print have been overlooked by modern sonnet scholarship, with its emphasis on narrative and amorous readings of the 1609 sequence. First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them numerous future applications. This volume draws upon book history, manuscript studies, and editorial theory to recover four lost critical approaches to the sonnets, highlighting early readers’ interests in Shakespeare’s classical adaptations, political applicability, religious themes, and rhetorical skill during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-23
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Shakespeare
Antal sidor246
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367501365

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Faith D. Acker received her doctorate in Renaissance Literature from the University of St Andrews. Subsequently, and while writing this book, she has taught at The University of Sheffield, Cornerstone Academy, Pellissippi State Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Montgomery College, and Signum University. Her additional work on the sonnets’ early readers appears in Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (eds. Depledge and Kirwan, 2017) and is forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly.

The Author to the ReaderIntroduction: ‘The Meaning’ of the SonnetsThe Sonnets, their texts, and their readers The Passionate Pilgrim and Shakespeare’s ‘sugred’ reputationTexts and editionsPilgrim as a sonnet sequenceShakespeare’s vendible name and relevant printsSupplementing Shakespeare with the classicsReading and revising the sonnets Reading and Revising Shake-Speare’s Sonnets (1609)Structure, contexts, and paratexts of the 1609 quartoThorpe and the criticsSonnets and sequences: Revisionist love storiesReading Thorpe’s Sonnet 2Annotating the sonnets The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: Sex, sonnets, and spiritualityExtant manuscript copies of Sonnet 2Sexual contexts for Sonnet 2Sonnet 2 in politics and religionFriends and elegies: Reading Sonnet 2 among epitaphs John Benson’s sonnet sequences (Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.)Benson and ShakespearePart I: Eternity of beautyPart II: Miscellaneity and dualityPart III: A Marriage of perjured mindsPart IV: Classics and imputed works Celebrations of Church and King: An early Cambridge readerReading habits and approachesCambridge originsPoems in praise of GodPoems to honour the KingContextualizing womenFor the love of God, not woman Restoration revisions: Musical, dramatic, and miscellany readingsMountebanks and martyrs: Lawes’ musical settingGender, duplicity, and eternal passion: Suckling’s BrennoraltManuscript variants and textual fluidity: Reading and sharingExtracts, miscellanies, and new contexts: Adapting the sonnets in the late seventeenth century Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canonCritical predilections: The autobiographical ShakespeareLife after Benson: Supplements and supplementarityNotes and Various Readings: The ultimate supplementCapell’s cento and Shakespeare’s languageCollecting Shakespeare: Complete and incomplete canons Edmond Malone: Plotting the SonnetsThe Search for authorial authenticityPoems and playsThe Editor and his characters Reading the Sonnets after Malone: Independent responsesDebating the poems: Critical annotationsSonnet sententiaeReading and editing the eighteenth centuryBeyond Malone: The New debateSonnet Futures