The Sonnets: The Sonnets 2ed (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521678374 ISBN 13: 9780521678377

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

Book Description:

For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. The volume follows the 1609 quarto and retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his detailed textual notes and line-by-line commentary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521678374
• ISBN 13: 9780521678377
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 292