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The Sonnets

2nd Edition

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Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare

  • Date Published: June 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521678377

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  • 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.

    • Texts accompanied by discursive headnotes and full commentaries
    • Includes an introduction by Stephen Orgel which is lively and provocative
    • The volume as a whole will appeal to students and poetry-lovers
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    • Edition: 2nd Edition
    • Date Published: June 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521678377
    • length: 291 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 151 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.474kg
    • contains: 3 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    List of illustrations
    Preface
    List of abbreviations and conventions
    Introduction Stephen Orgel
    Note on the text
    The Sonnets
    The commentary
    Textual analysis
    Appendix: manuscript copies of the Sonnets
    Reading list
    Index of first lines.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Shakespeare I
  • Author

    William Shakespeare

    Editor

    G. Blakemore Evans, Harvard University, Massachusetts

    Introduction by

    Stephen Orgel, Stanford University, California

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