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The Resource Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts, edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams

Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts, edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams

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Summary
"This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Sidney, Donne, Jonson, Marvell and Milton."--Page 4 of cover
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 377 pages)
Contents
  • Close reading beginnings -- Close reading experiences -- Close reading both ways -- Close rereading -- Close reading techniques -- Close reading Hamlet -- Close reading endings
  • Editorial emendation and the opening of A midsummer night's dream / Lukas Erne -- The story of O : reading letters in the prologue to Henry V / Travis D. Williams -- The sense of a beginning / Donald M. Friedman -- Spenser up close : temporality in The faerie queene / Linda Gregerson -- 'At heaven's gate' / Paul Edmonson, Stanley Wells -- On Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 / Brian Gibbons -- Balthasar's song in Much ado about nothing / Mark Womack -- The persistence of the flesh in Deaths duell / Kimberly Johnson -- The syntax of understanding : Herbert's 'Prayer (I)' / Daniel Shore -- The real presence of unstated puns : Herbert's 'Love (III)' / Michael Schoenfeldt -- 'Hardly they heard ' / Jeff Dolven -- Having it both ways in Juliet's 'Gallop apace' speech / Brett Gamboa -- 'To Celia' : not too close / Erik Gray -- Marvell's 'Mourning' / Stanley Fish -- On the value of the Town-Bayes / David A. Brewer -- Pointless Milton : a close reading in negative / Nicholas D. Nace -- Marlowe's will, Marlowe's shall / Drew Daniel -- Reading intensity : Sonnet 12 / Susan J. Wolfson -- 'Against' interpretations : rereading Sonnet 49 / Heather Dubrow -- The chimney-sweepers conceit in the song for Fidele in Cymbeline / Margaret Maurer -- Mille viae mortis / A.R. Braunmuller -- Donne the time traveller : reading 'The relic' / Stephen Burt -- Fletcher's Mad lover and the last Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez -- 'And ten low words oft creep in one dull line' : Sidney's perfection of a sonnet device / Norman Rabkin -- The fox and his pause : punctuating consciousness in Jonson's Volpone / Robert N. Watson -- Some similes in Paradise lost, book 9 / Paul Alpers -- Telling stories / Russ McDonald -- Richard's soliloquy : Richard II, 5.5.1-49 / Harry Berger Jr. -- Virtual presence and vicarious identity in the first tetralogy / Joel B. Altman -- Unmuffling Isabella / George T. Wright -- Hamlet's 'serious hearing' : 'sound' vs. 'use' of 'voice' / Garrett Stewart -- Hamlet's couplets / James Grantham Turner -- The dumb show in Hamlet / Tiffany Stern -- Claudius on his knees / Coppelia Kahn -- Gertrude's gallery / Lena Cowen Orlin -- The fool's promised exit / Margreta de Grazia -- How can act 5 forget Lear and Cordelia? / Charles Altieri -- Exits without exiting / Ralph Alan Cohen -- Playing Prospero against the grain / Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Isbn
9781408172384
Instance
Label
Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts
Title
Shakespeare up close
Title remainder
reading early modern texts
Statement of responsibility
edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Sidney, Donne, Jonson, Marvell and Milton."--Page 4 of cover
Member of
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
820.9003
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR2976
LC item number
.S33868 2012eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1949-
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  • McDonald, Russ
  • Nace, Nicholas D.
  • Williams, Travis D
Series statement
Arden Shakespeare
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  • Shakespeare, William
  • English literature
  • English literature
  • Shakespeare, William
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • English literature
Label
Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts, edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Close reading beginnings -- Close reading experiences -- Close reading both ways -- Close rereading -- Close reading techniques -- Close reading Hamlet -- Close reading endings
  • Editorial emendation and the opening of A midsummer night's dream / Lukas Erne -- The story of O : reading letters in the prologue to Henry V / Travis D. Williams -- The sense of a beginning / Donald M. Friedman -- Spenser up close : temporality in The faerie queene / Linda Gregerson -- 'At heaven's gate' / Paul Edmonson, Stanley Wells -- On Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 / Brian Gibbons -- Balthasar's song in Much ado about nothing / Mark Womack -- The persistence of the flesh in Deaths duell / Kimberly Johnson -- The syntax of understanding : Herbert's 'Prayer (I)' / Daniel Shore -- The real presence of unstated puns : Herbert's 'Love (III)' / Michael Schoenfeldt -- 'Hardly they heard ' / Jeff Dolven -- Having it both ways in Juliet's 'Gallop apace' speech / Brett Gamboa -- 'To Celia' : not too close / Erik Gray -- Marvell's 'Mourning' / Stanley Fish -- On the value of the Town-Bayes / David A. Brewer -- Pointless Milton : a close reading in negative / Nicholas D. Nace -- Marlowe's will, Marlowe's shall / Drew Daniel -- Reading intensity : Sonnet 12 / Susan J. Wolfson -- 'Against' interpretations : rereading Sonnet 49 / Heather Dubrow -- The chimney-sweepers conceit in the song for Fidele in Cymbeline / Margaret Maurer -- Mille viae mortis / A.R. Braunmuller -- Donne the time traveller : reading 'The relic' / Stephen Burt -- Fletcher's Mad lover and the last Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez -- 'And ten low words oft creep in one dull line' : Sidney's perfection of a sonnet device / Norman Rabkin -- The fox and his pause : punctuating consciousness in Jonson's Volpone / Robert N. Watson -- Some similes in Paradise lost, book 9 / Paul Alpers -- Telling stories / Russ McDonald -- Richard's soliloquy : Richard II, 5.5.1-49 / Harry Berger Jr. -- Virtual presence and vicarious identity in the first tetralogy / Joel B. Altman -- Unmuffling Isabella / George T. Wright -- Hamlet's 'serious hearing' : 'sound' vs. 'use' of 'voice' / Garrett Stewart -- Hamlet's couplets / James Grantham Turner -- The dumb show in Hamlet / Tiffany Stern -- Claudius on his knees / Coppelia Kahn -- Gertrude's gallery / Lena Cowen Orlin -- The fool's promised exit / Margreta de Grazia -- How can act 5 forget Lear and Cordelia? / Charles Altieri -- Exits without exiting / Ralph Alan Cohen -- Playing Prospero against the grain / Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Control code
878405951
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 377 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781408172384
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)878405951
Label
Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts, edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Close reading beginnings -- Close reading experiences -- Close reading both ways -- Close rereading -- Close reading techniques -- Close reading Hamlet -- Close reading endings
  • Editorial emendation and the opening of A midsummer night's dream / Lukas Erne -- The story of O : reading letters in the prologue to Henry V / Travis D. Williams -- The sense of a beginning / Donald M. Friedman -- Spenser up close : temporality in The faerie queene / Linda Gregerson -- 'At heaven's gate' / Paul Edmonson, Stanley Wells -- On Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 / Brian Gibbons -- Balthasar's song in Much ado about nothing / Mark Womack -- The persistence of the flesh in Deaths duell / Kimberly Johnson -- The syntax of understanding : Herbert's 'Prayer (I)' / Daniel Shore -- The real presence of unstated puns : Herbert's 'Love (III)' / Michael Schoenfeldt -- 'Hardly they heard ' / Jeff Dolven -- Having it both ways in Juliet's 'Gallop apace' speech / Brett Gamboa -- 'To Celia' : not too close / Erik Gray -- Marvell's 'Mourning' / Stanley Fish -- On the value of the Town-Bayes / David A. Brewer -- Pointless Milton : a close reading in negative / Nicholas D. Nace -- Marlowe's will, Marlowe's shall / Drew Daniel -- Reading intensity : Sonnet 12 / Susan J. Wolfson -- 'Against' interpretations : rereading Sonnet 49 / Heather Dubrow -- The chimney-sweepers conceit in the song for Fidele in Cymbeline / Margaret Maurer -- Mille viae mortis / A.R. Braunmuller -- Donne the time traveller : reading 'The relic' / Stephen Burt -- Fletcher's Mad lover and the last Shakespeare / Jeremy Lopez -- 'And ten low words oft creep in one dull line' : Sidney's perfection of a sonnet device / Norman Rabkin -- The fox and his pause : punctuating consciousness in Jonson's Volpone / Robert N. Watson -- Some similes in Paradise lost, book 9 / Paul Alpers -- Telling stories / Russ McDonald -- Richard's soliloquy : Richard II, 5.5.1-49 / Harry Berger Jr. -- Virtual presence and vicarious identity in the first tetralogy / Joel B. Altman -- Unmuffling Isabella / George T. Wright -- Hamlet's 'serious hearing' : 'sound' vs. 'use' of 'voice' / Garrett Stewart -- Hamlet's couplets / James Grantham Turner -- The dumb show in Hamlet / Tiffany Stern -- Claudius on his knees / Coppelia Kahn -- Gertrude's gallery / Lena Cowen Orlin -- The fool's promised exit / Margreta de Grazia -- How can act 5 forget Lear and Cordelia? / Charles Altieri -- Exits without exiting / Ralph Alan Cohen -- Playing Prospero against the grain / Michael Ellis-Tolaydo
Control code
878405951
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 377 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781408172384
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)878405951

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