The early modern English sonnet

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland.

Introduction
Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin

Shaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England

1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentary
William J. Kennedy

2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth century
Carlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi Vuillemin

Performing the English sonnet

3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stage
Guillaume Coatalen

4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate Pilgrim
Sophie Chiari

Placing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced

5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth century
Chris Stamatakis

6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapy
Elisabeth Chaghafi

7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorship
Rémi Vuillemin

Editing the sonnet

8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellany
Hugh Gazzard

9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares Sonnets
Andrew Eastman