Finding Sources for Paper #2: The Sonnet Drama

 We'll be doing In-Class Writing #4 on Friday to help you with your Sonnet Drama paper, due very soon! So keep reading the Sonnets and look for connections/themes that tell a story you find interesting. As I suggested in class, the best way to write this paper is to READ first. Not just The Sonnets, but critical works about them. The more ideas you get, the easier it will be to put the poems together into a loose narrative. Below are some sources via our library that you might want to check out. I highly recommend the books by Mirsky and Vendler. And remember, you don't have to read an entire book to find it useful...each one highlights specific sonnets and in the case of Vendler, her book is literally a close reading of every single sonnet. So simply look up the ones you're interested in! 

Books and DVDs in our Library

* A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (DVD)

Call number (3^rd floor): PN1997 W.3880

* Mirsky, Mark. The Drama in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: “a satire to decay.”

Call number: PR2848.M57

* Rackin, Phyllis. Shakespeare and Women. Call number: PR2991.R33

 * Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

Call number: PR2848.V46

Articles

Cheney, Patrick. “‘O, Let My Books Be ... Dumb Presagers’: Poetry and Theater in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, [Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, George Washington University], 2001, pp. 222–54, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3648668.

Dubrow, Heather. “‘Incertainties Now Crown Themselves Assur’d’: The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, [Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, George Washington University], 1996, pp. 291–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2871379.

Harper, David A. “Revising Obsession in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 153 and 154.” Studies in Philology, vol. 112, no. 1, University of North Carolina Press, 2015, pp. 114–38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24392050.

Hokama, Rhema. “Love’s Rites: Performing Prayer in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2012, pp. 199–223, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41679747.

Rosmarin, Adena. “Hermeneutics versus Erotics: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Interpretive History.” PMLA, vol. 100, no. 1, Modern Language Association, 1985, pp. 20–37, https://doi.org/10.2307/462198.

Sarkar, Malabika. “The Magic of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Renaissance Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, Wiley, 1998, pp. 251–60, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24412540.

Stockard, Emily E.. “Patterns of Consolation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1-126.” Studies in Philology, vol. 94, no. 4, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 465–93, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174591.

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