| The Sonnets Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), Evans, G. Blakemore (Editor), Orgel, Stephen (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0521861187 ISBN-13: 9780521861182 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $76.94 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 821.3 |
| LCCN: 2006299208 |
| Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.29" W x 8.96" (1.28 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. In a series of focused readings he probes the sonnets' sexual and temperamental ambiguity as well as their complex textual history, and explores the difficulties editors face when modernising the spelling, punctuation and layout of the 1609 quarto. Orgel reminds us that the order in which the sonnets were composed bears no relation to the order in which they appear in the quarto and he warns against reading them biographically. This edition retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his notes and commentary. |