The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets

By Steven Monte

Book Overview

This book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries. The fundamental reason why his schemes have gone unnoticed is historical: within decades of his death, conventions of sonnet sequences became unfamiliar, and they have largely remained so since. Weaving together ideas of the Sonnets as a free-standing sequence and as a sonnet sequence among other poets' complex sequences, we discover new insights into Shakespeare's career as a poet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474481485
• ISBN13: 9781474481489
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"