Pt. I. Sonnet form and sonnet sequence. 1. The value of the sonnets / Stephen Booth
2. Formal pleasure in the sonnets / Helen Vendler
3. The incomplete narrative of Shakespeare's sonnets / James Schiffer
4. Revolution in Shakes-speares sonnets / Margreta de Grazia
Pt. II. Shakespeare and his predecessors. 5. The refusal to be judged in Petrarch and Shakespeare / Richard Strier
6. "Dressing old words new"? Re-evaluating the "Delian structure" / Heather Dubrow
7. Confounded by winter : speeding time in Shakespeare's sonnets / Dympna Callaghan
Pt. III. Editorial theory and biographical inquiry : editing the sonnets. 8. Shake-speares sonnets, Shakespeare's connets, and Shakespearean biography / Richard Dutton
9. Mr. who he? / Stephen Orgel
10. Editing the sonnets / Colin Burrow
11. William Empson and the sonnets / Lars Engle
Pt. IV. The sonnets in manuscript and print. 12. Shakespeare's sonnets and the manuscript circulation of texts in early modern England / Arthur F. Marotti
13. The sonnets and book history / Marcy L. North
Pt. V. Models of desire in the sonnets. 14. Shakespeare's love of objects / Douglas Trevor
15. Tender distance : Latinity and desire in Shakespeare's sonnets / Bradin Cormack
16. Fickle glass / Rayna Kalas
17. "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" : mapping the "emotional regime" of Shakespeare's sonnets / Jyotsna G. Singh
Pt. VI. Ideas of darkness in the sonnets. 18. Rethinking Shakespeare's dark lady / Ilona Bell
19. Flesh colors and Shakespeare's sonnets / Elizabeth D. Harvey
Pt. VII. Memory and repetition in the sonnets. 20. Voicing the young man : memory, forgetting, and subjectivity in the procreation sonnets / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
21. "Full character'd" : competing forms of memory in Shakespeare's sonnets / Amanda Watson
Pt. VIII. The sonnets in/and the plays. 22. Halting sonnets : poetry and theater in Much ado about nothing / Patrick Cheney
23. Personal identity and vicarious experience in Shakespeare's sonnets / William Flesch
Pt. IX. The sonnets and A lover's complaint. 24. "Making the quadrangle round" : alchemy's protean forms in Shakespeare's sonnets and A lover's complaint / Margaret Healy
25. The enigma of A lover's complaint / Catherine Bates
Appendix: the 1609 text of Shakepeare's sonnets and A lover's complaint.
