The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollecti

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a bro

This imaginative and richly detailed study explores the deep connection between desire and recollection in Shakespeare's poetry. Drawing on cognitive science, t

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.