Preface

Critical discussion

Cymbeline

David Johnson

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Richard Danson Brown

Sources, analogues and criticism

Appendix 1

Text 1 The First Volume of Chronicles

Raphael Holinshed

Text 2 The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Text 3 `Chronological list of plays with heroines in male disguise' from Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages

Michael Shapiro

Text 4 Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

Text 5 `Foreword' from Cymbeline Refinished: A Variation on Shakespear's Ending

George Bernard Shaw

Text 6 `Masculine authority and the maternal body: the return to origins in Cymbeline' from Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, `Hamlet' to `The Tempest'

Janet Adelman

Text 7 `The masculine romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and early modern English nationalism'

Jodi Mikalachki

Appendix 2

Text 1 Ovid, Epilogue from The Metamorphoses

Text 2 Sonnet 75 from Amoretti and Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

Text 3 Petrarch, `Pace non trovo' from Rime sparse, trans. Robert Durling

Text 4 Petrarch, `Pace non trovo' from Rime sparse, trans. Sir Thomas Wyatt

Text 5 Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella

Sir Philip Sidney

Text 6 Sonnet 50 from Idea

Michael Drayton

Text 7 Sonnet 50 from Amoretti and Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

Text 8 `Death be not proud' from Holy Sonnets

John Donne

Text 9 `Editing out: the discourse of patronage and Shakespeare's twenty-ninth sonnet' from Poetry, Language and Politics

John Barrell

Text 10 William Wordsworth and Samuel critical comment on Shakespeare's Sonnets

Taylor Coleridge

Text 11 `The dramatic technique of Shakespeare's sonnets'

G.K. Hunter

Text 12 `The sonnets' from Captive Victors: Shakespeare's Narrative Poems and Sonnets

Heather Dubrow

Text 13 `The secret sharer' from Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics

Bruce Smith

Text 14 `Sonnet 20' from The Art of `Shakespeare's Sonnets'

Helen Vendler

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Index