The sonnets
"In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasise their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernising the original quarto's spelling, punctuation and ev…
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- Full title :The sonnets / [William Shakespeare] ; edited by G. Blakemore Evans ; with a new introduction by Stephen Orgel.
Summary
"In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasise their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernising the original quarto's spelling, punctuation and even layout." "The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the Sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2006.
- Edition:Updated edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
Previous edition: 1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 277 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521861182, 0521861187, 9780521678377, 0521678374
- oclc:on1156748864
- LC Classification:PR2848.A2
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