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The Drama in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
'A Satire to Decay'
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ISBN-13:
9781611470277
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
280
Autor:
Mark Jay Mirsky
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has frustrated scholars and poets alike. Arguing that the Sonnets are not just a "higgledy piggledy" collection of poems but were put in order by Shakespeare himself, and drawing on the insights of several of the Sonnets' foremost contemporary scholars, Mirsky examines the Sonnets poem by poem to ask what is the story of the whole.
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist, playwright, and professor of English, proposes a solution to a riddle that has frustrated scholars and poets alike. Arguing that the Sonnets are not just a "higgledy piggledy" collection of poems but were put in order by Shakespeare himself, and drawing on the insights of several of the Sonnets' foremost contemporary scholars, Mirsky examines the Sonnets poem by poem to ask what is the story of the whole.
Mirsky takes Shakespeare at his own word in Sonnet 100, where the poet, tongue in cheek, advises his lover to regard "time's spoils"–in this case, "any wrinkle graven" in his cheek–as but "a satire to decay." The comfort is obviously double-edged, but it can also be read as a mirror of Shakespeare's "satire" on himself, as if to praise his own wrinkles, and reflects the poet's intention in assembling the Sonnets to satirize the playwright's own "decay" as a man and a lover.
Mirsky takes Shakespeare at his own word in Sonnet 100, where the poet, tongue in cheek, advises his lover to regard "time's spoils"–in this case, "any wrinkle graven" in his cheek–as but "a satire to decay." The comfort is obviously double-edged, but it can also be read as a mirror of Shakespeare's "satire" on himself, as if to praise his own wrinkles, and reflects the poet's intention in assembling the Sonnets to satirize the playwright's own "decay" as a man and a lover.
1 Acknowledgments
2 Introduction: Cupid's Seething Bath
Chapter 3 1. Master Mistress of My Passion
Chapter 4 2. The Ashes of His Youth
Chapter 5 3. Farewell Thou Art Too Dear
Chapter 6 4. A Motley to the View
Chapter 7 5. Every Bad a Perfect Best
Chapter 8 6. Dear Love I Rise and Fall
9 Epilogue: A Final Dip
10 Bibliography
11 Index
12 About the Author
2 Introduction: Cupid's Seething Bath
Chapter 3 1. Master Mistress of My Passion
Chapter 4 2. The Ashes of His Youth
Chapter 5 3. Farewell Thou Art Too Dear
Chapter 6 4. A Motley to the View
Chapter 7 5. Every Bad a Perfect Best
Chapter 8 6. Dear Love I Rise and Fall
9 Epilogue: A Final Dip
10 Bibliography
11 Index
12 About the Author