Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Venus and Adonis	12
i	The minor epic. Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis	12
ii	The poem's narrator. Venus and the multiplicity, the otherness of love	14
iii	Venus and metamorphosis	19
iv	Adonis the rhetorician. Adonis, Narcissus and metamorphosis	29
v	Adonis, the narrator and the male gaze. Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Donne's 'Elegy 19'	33
Ch. 2	Lucrece	48
i	Versions of the Lucretia story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower	48
ii	Genres	58
iii	Tarquin, Lucrece and Collatine	63
iv	The rape of Lucrece	81
v	Lucrece, Troy and Brutus	92
Ch. 3	Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-19: The Young Man, the Poet and Father Time	111
i	Introduction, Petrarch, Sidney and the Elizabethan sonnet	111
ii	Narcissus called to account	121
iii	The economy of nature, Father Time and the wisdom of Narcissus	129
Ch. 4	Shakespeare's Sonnets 20-126: The Poet, the Young Man, Androgyny and Friendship	143
i	Introduction. Narcissus and Adonis	143
ii	Sonnet 20. Fictions and discourses	147
iii	Desire and its discontents	155
iv	Losing and keeping	167
Ch. 5	Shakespeare's Sonnets 127-154: the Poet, the Dark Lady and the Young Man	188
i	Fictions of beauty	188
ii	The divided self, misogyny and friendship	196
iii	Ending with Cupid	202
	Conclusion	212
	Index	219