| Notes on Contributors | | viii | |
| Acknowledgments | | xii | |
| Introduction | | 1 | (12) |
| PART I Sonnet Form and Sonnet Sequence |
| | 13 | (58) |
| | 15 | (12) |
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| Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets |
| | 27 | (18) |
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| The Incomplete Narrative of Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 45 | (12) |
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| Revolution in Shake-speares Sonnets |
| | 57 | (14) |
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| PART II Shakespeare and His Predecessors |
| | 71 | (48) |
| The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare |
| | 73 | (17) |
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| ``Dressing old words new''? Re-evaluating the ``Delian Structure'' |
| | 90 | (14) |
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| Confounded by Winter: Speeding Time in Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 104 | (15) |
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| PART III Editorial Theory and Biographical Inquiry: Editing the Sonnets |
| | 119 | (64) |
| Shakespeares Sonnets, Shakespeare's Sonnets, and Shakespearean Biography |
| | 121 | (16) |
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| | 137 | (8) |
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| | 145 | (18) |
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| William Empson and the Sonnets |
| | 163 | (20) |
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| PART IV The Sonnets in Manuscript and Print |
| | 183 | (40) |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England |
| | 185 | (19) |
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| The Sonnets and Book History |
| | 204 | (19) |
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| PART V Models of Desire in the Sonnets |
| | 223 | (68) |
| Shakespeare's Love Objects |
| | 225 | (17) |
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| Tender Distance: Latinity and Desire in Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 242 | (19) |
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| | 261 | (16) |
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| ``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'': Mapping the ``Emotional Regime'' of Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 277 | (14) |
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| PART VI Ideas of Darkness in the Sonnets |
| | 291 | (38) |
| Rethinking Shakespeare's Dark Lady |
| | 293 | (21) |
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| Flesh Colors and Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 314 | (15) |
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| PART VII Memory and Repetition in the Sonnets |
| | 329 | (32) |
| Voicing the Young Man: Memory, Forgetting, and Subjectivity in the Procreation Sonnets |
| | 331 | (12) |
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| ``Full character'd'': Competing Forms of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 343 | (18) |
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| PART VIII The Sonnets inland the Plays |
| | 361 | (42) |
| Halting Sonnets: Poetry and Theater in Much Ado About Nothing |
| | 363 | (20) |
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| Personal Identity and Vicarious Experience in Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| | 383 | (20) |
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| PART IX The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint |
| | 403 | (38) |
| ``Making the quadrangle round'': Alchemy's Protean Forms in Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint |
| | 405 | (21) |
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| The Enigma of A Lover's Complaint |
| | 426 | (15) |
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| Appendix: The 1609 Text of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint | | 441 | (61) |
| Index | | 502 | |
