Table of Contents General Editor's Introduction, Illustrations, Preface, Contributor List Part I: Introduction Reading New Life into Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Survey of Criticism, Part II: Recent Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Peter Stallybrass, The Scandal of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Margretta de Grazia, "Incertanties now crown themselves assur'd:" The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets, The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets, George Wright, Part III. New Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets Shakespeare's Petrarchism Gordon Braden, "I am that I am": Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Economy of Shame Lars Engle, "A dateless lively heat:" Storing Loss in the Sonnets Joyce Sutphen, Politics, Heresy, and Martyrdon in Shakespeare Sonnet 124 and Titus Andronius John Klause, The Name of the Rose: Christian Figurality and Shakespeare's Sonnets Lisa Freinkel. What's the Use? Or, The Problematic of Economy in Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets Peter Herman, Sonnets 71-74: Texts and Contexts Joseph Pequigney, The Matter of Inwardness: Shakespeare's Sonnets Michael Schoenfelt, "The dyer's hand": The Reproduction of Coercion and Blot in Shakespeare's Sonnets Olga Valbuena, Playing "the mother's part": Shakespeare's Sonnets and Early Modern Codes of Maternity Naomi Miller, Be Dark but Not Too Dark: Shakespeare's Lady as a Sign of Color Marvin Hunt, The Sonnets on Trial: Reconsidering The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Rebecca Larouche, I, You, He, She, and WE: On the Sexual Politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets Bruce Smith, Sex Without Issue: Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare's Sonnets Valerie Traub, "That which thou hast done": Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Ilona Bell