The Poems
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
2nd Edition
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: John Roe, University of York
- Date Published: June 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521671620
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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.
Read more- 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
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: June 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521671620
- length: 326 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: 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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- British Literature I
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