Between men : English literature and male homosocial desire / by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Table of Contents: “…Swan in love: the example of Shakespeare's sonnets --…”

Selfish gifts : the politics of exchange and English courtly literature, 1580-1628 / by Scott, Alison V., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Nonreciprocation and female rule : The Elizabethan context -- "[A] mutual render, only me for thee" : "True" gifts in Shakespeare's sonnets -- Competitive gifts and strategic exchange at the Jacobean court -- Gifts for the Somerset wedding -- "Fortune's darling, king's content" : The Duke of Buckingham as gift problem.…”

Renaissance texts, medieval subjectivities : rethinking Petrarchan desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare / by Sokolov, D. A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Vernacular memories of English Petrarchism -- The measure of meed: symbolic economies in Langland, Wyatt, and Spenser -- Chaucerian melancholy in Renaissance England: Surrey's songes and sonnets and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella -- Sovereign love, medieval and early modern: the arts of marriage in the Casket sonnets and the Kingis quair -- Petrarchan afterlives of erotic legality: love and law in Lydgate, Daniel, and Drayton -- Medieval pathologies of affect: reading Hoccleve and Henryson in Shakespeare's sonnets -- Conclusion: The "English straine" of Renaissance petrarchism: poetry, genealogy, hermeneutics.…”

Shakespeare, the king's playwright : theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613 / by Kernan, Alvin B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Shakespeare at the Stuart Court -- Art and theater in the service of the Leviathan state -- Blood revenge in Elsinore and in holyrood : Hamlet (Hampton Court, Christmas 1603) -- The king's prerogative and the law : Measure for measure (Whitehall, December 26, 1604) -- The politics of madness and demonism : Macbeth (Hampton Court, August 7, 1606) -- The true king : Lear (Whitehall, Christmas 1606) -- Sex and favor in the court : Antony and Cleopatra (Whitehall, Christmas 1607) -- The military and the court aristocracies : Coriolanus (Whitehall, Christmas 1608) -- The king and the poet : The tempest (Whitehall, Winter 1613) -- Shakespeare's sonnets and patronage art -- What the king saw, what the poet wrote -- Appendix A : Theatrical calendar of the King's Men at court, 1603-14 -- Appendix B : The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605.…”

Shakespeare and early modern political thought /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's properties / David Armitage -- The active and contemplative lives in Shakespeare's plays / Cathy Curtis -- Shakespeare and the ethics of authority / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare and the politics of superstition / Susan James -- Counsel, succession and the politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Cathy Shrank -- Educating Hamlet and Prince Hal / Aysha Pollnitz -- The corruption of Hamlet / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Unfolding 'the properties of government': the case of Measure for measure and the history of political thought / Conal Condren -- Shakespeare and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII / Jennifer Richards -- Putting the city into Shakespeare's city comedy / Phil Withington -- Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar / David Colclough -- Political rhetoric and citizenship in Coriolanus / Markku Peltonen -- Shakespeare and the best state of a commonwealth / Eric Nelson Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture / Quentin Skinner.…”
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Shakespeare and early modern political thought /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's properties / David Armitage -- The active and contemplative lives in Shakespeare's plays / Cathy Curtis -- Shakespeare and the ethics of authority / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare and the politics of superstition / Susan James --Counsel, succession and the politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Cathy Shrank -- Educating Hamlet and Prince Hal / Aysha Pollnitz -- The corruption of Hamlet / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Unfolding 'the properties of government': the case of Measure for measure and the history of political thought / Conal Condren -- Shakespeare and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII / Jennifer Richards -- Putting the city into Shakespeare's city comedy / Phil Withington -- Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar / David Colclough -- Political rhetoric and citizenship in Coriolanus / Markku Peltonen -- Shakespeare and the best state of a commonwealth / Eric Nelson Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture / Quentin Skinner.…”
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