The Poems
The Poems
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
2nd Edition
July 2006
Available
Hardback
9780521855518
This second edition of Shakespeare's narrative poems contains an introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated and introduced, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim and A Lover's Complaint. An updated reading list completes the edition.
- Updated edition, containing a new introductory section on recent critical interpretations and an updated reading list
- Fully annotated edition of all the poems which can be assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets
- Introduction also considers evidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover's Complaint
Reviews & endorsements
'John Roe offers without doubt the best treatment of the poems for many years …' The Year's Work in Modern Languages
Product details
July 2006Hardback
9780521855518
326 pages
229 × 157 × 25 mm
0.61kg
5 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
- Note on the text
- Recent critical interpretations
- Principles of collation
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- A Lover's Complaint
- Supplementary notes
- Textual analysis
- Reading list.
