Essays
On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
2001·288 pages
Scholarly essays on Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton, and lesser-known early modern writers, closely reading poems and plays.
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Scholarly essays on Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton, and lesser-known early modern writers, closely reading poems and plays.
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This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and, in a new piece, William Drummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large in this volume and his poems, plays and influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Academic discussion of love poetry and erotic themes in early modern verse
Violence & gore
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Critical discussion of violence in Shakespearean and early modern drama
Profanity
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No profanity present in scholarly academic prose
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Recurring analysis of faith and theology, especially in Milton essays
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Essays address cultural politics, nationhood, and canon formation
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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