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Describes engagement with Shakespeare in When We Were Young (q.v.), including "dislocat[ing] Lear as primary narrator in favour of polyvocality," focusing on "toxic masculinity," and engaging with myths of power. English summary, 348-49.
"Set[s] up an encounter" between Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "Don't Ask Me, My Love, for That Love Again" (c. 1962-65) and Shakespeare's Sonnet 57, exploring "lyric thinking" and "shared phenomenological experiences." English summary, 348.
"Explores the limits of feminine sympathy in Shaksepeare's framed 'female complaint' poems." Notes that early modern women writers had "little interest" in the framed complaint genre. English summary, 348.
Identifies Venus's gaze as fascinum, "the mental projection of one's thoughts, desires and imagination onto something or someone," in this case, Adonis. Suggests that "Venus's ocular power...disrupts the gender dynamics, ultimately causing Adonis psychological distress and leading to his tragic demise." English summary, 347.
Suggests that Richard Barnfield's influence on Shakespeare, and especially the Sonnets, has been largely disregarded because of Barnfield's "explicitly homoerotic" sonnets. Demonstrates that reading Shakespeare's sonnets alongside Barnfield's offers fruitful potential for rethinking the Sonnets themselves as well our understanding of early modern sexuality. English summary, 348.
"Shows that Shakespeare remained a sustaining poetic companion for Milton's journey into blindness." Reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 alongside Milton's Sonnet 19; considers Shakespeare's Sonnet 43 in relation to Milton's sonnet 23 and Imtiaz Dharker's sonnet "The Trick." English summary, 345.
Explores how "A Lover's Complaint" follows some of the precepts outlined in Sarah Ahmed's Complaint!, namely: offering a record of wrongs "you do not wish to reproduce"; non-linearity; embracing anonymity; and drawing on a collective. English summary, 345.
Explores the possibility that Shakespeare "had a nascent, elementary understanding of and/or interest in Middle Eastern poetic forms," noting that English sonnets were likely "moulded by Arabic lyric conventions." English summary, 348.
Positions Lucrece's letter writing in context of "the vogue for raison d'état" and Justus Lipsius's tract on letter writing. Suggests that "Lucrece is a masterful letter writer not because of what she has written, but because of what she has not written," that is, her grief. English summary, 347.
Draws on Preti Taneja's Aftermath (2021); Sandeep Parmar, Bhanu Kapil, and Nisha Ramayaa's Threads (2018); and Khapil's "translations" of Sonnet 91 in Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault's The Sonnets (q.v), to explore how "Shakespeare is omnipresent even when he needs to be erased," noting that "even erasure, however, is a palimspestic form of presence." English summary, 347.