Sonnets - Oxford Refer...
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe, and Erin Sullivan
Artistic features:
Critical history:
Recent major editions
Some representative criticism
Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907–73)
Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834)
Daniel, Samuel (1563–1619)
'Dark Lady'
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631)
Empson, Sir William (1906–84)
'Fair Youth'
Jonson, Ben (1572–1637)
Knight, Charles (1791–1873)
lyric poetry, Shakespeare's
A Lover's Complaint
Love's Labour's Lost
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Malone, Edmond (1741–1812)
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93)
Meres, Francis (1565–1647)
Milton, John (1608–74)
Mortimer, Sir John (1923–2009)
Mr W.H.
New Criticism
Ovid (43 bc–ad 17)
Passionate Pilgrim, The
Petrarch (1304–74)
'Phoenix and Turtle, The'
rival poet
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–86)
Spenser, Edmund (1552–99)
Stationers' Company and Register
Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)
Preface to the First Edition
Thematic Listing of Entries
List of Plays in Alphabetical Order
All's Well That Ends Well
Cymbeline, King of Britain
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Henry V
Henry VI Part 1
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Richard Duke of York
The Taming of the Shrew
Timon of Athens
Troilus and Cressida
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The British Isles and France in the English Histories and <i>Macbeth</i>
The Royal Family in Shakespeare's English Histories
Shakespeare's Life, Works, and Reception: A Partial Chronology, 1564–2015
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Michael DobsonMichael Dobson
Despite his contemporaries' preference for Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets have long been regarded ...