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First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1590-1790 (Paperback)
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First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1590-1790 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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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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