First readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, 1590-1790

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Titel
First readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, 1590-1790
verantwortlich
Acker, Faith D. (VerfasserIn)
veröffentlicht
New York, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Teil von
Routledge studies in Shakespeare
Erscheint auch als
Acker, Faith D., First readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, 1590-1790, New York, NY : Routledge, 2021, 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 246 Seiten)
Andere Ausgaben
First readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, 1590-1790
Medientyp
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Datenquelle
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Zusammenfassung
The passionate pilgrim and Shakespeare's 'sugred' reputation -- Reading and revising Shake-Speare's sonnets (1609) -- The manuscripts of Sonnet 2: sex, sonnets, and spirituality -- John Benson's sonnet sequences (poems: written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent.) -- Celebrations of church and king: an early Cambridge reader -- Restoration revisions: musical, dramatic, and miscellany readings -- Supplementing Shakespeare and creating the canon -- Edmond Malone: plotting the sonnets -- Reading the sonnets after Malone: independent responses
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
Umfang
xxiii, 246 Seiten; Illustrationen; 24 cm
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
Shakespeare, William > Sonett > Rezeption > Geschichte 1590-1790
BK-Notation
18.05 Englische Literatur
17.94 Literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen, Rezeption
DDC-Notation
810/820
ISBN
9780367501365
0367501368