Rémi Vuillemin is Senior Lecturer in English language and literature at Université de Strasbourg, France.

Laetitia Sansonetti is Senior Lecturer in English literature and translation studies at Université Paris Nanterre, France.

Enrica Zanin is Senior Lecturer in comparative early modern literature at Université de Strasbourg, France.

Introduction
Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica Zanin

Shaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England

1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentary
William J. Kennedy

2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth century
Carlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi Vuillemin

Performing the English sonnet

3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stage
Guillaume Coatalen

4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate Pilgrim
Sophie Chiari

Placing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced

5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth century
Chris Stamatakis

6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapy
Elisabeth Chaghafi

7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorship
Rémi Vuillemin

Editing the sonnet

8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellany
Hugh Gazzard

9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares Sonnets
Andrew Eastman