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| General Editor's Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Analysing Shakespeare's Sonnets | |
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| Love, or What You Will | |
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| Sonnet 4: 'Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend' | |
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| Sonnet 129: 'Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame' | |
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| Sonnet 20: 'A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted' | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further Research | |
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| Time: to Posterity and Beyond | |
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| Sonnet 5: 'Those hours that with gentle work did frame' | |
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| Sonnet 12: 'When I do count the clock that tells the time' | |
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| Sonnet 60: 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' | |
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| Sonnet 116: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds' | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further Research | |
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| Art: Clever, Very | |
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| Sonnet 23: 'As an unperfect actor on the stage' | |
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| Sonnet 55: 'Not marble nor the gilded monuments' | |
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| Sonnet 100: 'Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long' | |
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| Sonnet 106: 'When in the chronicle of wasted time' | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further Research | |
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| The Rival Poet(s): a Lesson in Tightropes? | |
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| Sonnet 78: 'So oft have I invoked thee for my muse' | |
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| Sonnet 79: 'Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid' | |
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| Sonnet 82: 'I grant thou wert not married to my Muse' | |
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| Sonnet 86: 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse' | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further Research | |
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| Fair's Fair: the Dark Mistresses | |
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| Sonnet 127: 'In the old age black was not counted fair' | |
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| Sonnet 130: 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' | |
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| Sonnet 144: 'Two loves I have of comfort and despair' | |
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| Sonnet 152: 'In loving thee thou knowst I am forsworn' | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further Research | |
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| The Context and the Critics | |
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| Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet | |
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| Shakespeare the poet | |
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| The sonnet form | |
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| English sonneteers | |
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| The sonnet sequence | |
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| The end of the century and the end of the sonnet (for now) | |
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| The Court and courtly love | |
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| Humanism, Rhetoric and Poetry | |
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| Realism and rhetoric | |
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| Renaissance humanism and literature | |
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| The craft of poetry | |
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| Some Critical Responses to the Sonnets | |
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| G. Wilson Knight | |
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| Stephen Booth | |
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| A. D. Cousins | |
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| Peter Hyland | |
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| A Glossary of Some Rhetorical and Literary Terms | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |