Shakespeare''s Sonnets

Zusatztext elegant...This book is excellent on links between theatre and sonnets...The book is also a consideration! even a celebration! of what! precisely! makes Shakespeare's verse so compelling. Klappentext The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignorethem. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naive reader willfind it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts--in relation to other poetry of theperiod, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism. Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal forstudents and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems. Zusammenfassung Offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This book considers questions often raised about them - Do they reflect Shakespeare's personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female, be identified? What do they tell us about Shakespeare's sexuality? How do they relate to the literary tradition?

Product details

• Authors: Paul Edmondson, Paul (Head of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Edmondson, Stanley Wells, Stanley (Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) Wells, Stanley W. Wells, Stanley W. Edmondson Wells
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780199256112
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925611-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Pap; Oxford Shakespeare Topics; Oxford Shakespeare Topics (Pap
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter