The Sonnets (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521678377
- ISBN10 0521678374
- Type Book
- Pages 292
- Collection The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Published 2006
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
The Sonnets (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Book Details
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 edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing 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.
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521678377
- ISBN10 0521678374
- Type Book
- Pages 292
- Collection The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Published 2006
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback