Shakespeare''s Sonnets - An Original-Spelling Text

Shakespeare's Sonnets are the most famous and controversial love poems in the English language. This book is both an edition of these poems and a guide to how to read them. It is the only current edition which provides an original-spelling text, and prints the poems as they appeared in the first edition, Shake-speares Sonnets(1609).

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations


• PART I: READING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS


• 1: The Sonnets and their First Readers


• 2: Reading the Sonnet Form


• 3: Reading the Sonnet Tradition


• 4: Reading the Sonnets


• 5: Reading an Original-Spelling Text


• A Note on the Text and Annotation


• Abbreviations


• PART II: AN ORIGINAL-SPELLING EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS


• Shake-speares Sonnets


• Appendix: The Texts of Sonnets 138 and 144 from The Passionate Pilgrim


• PART III: AIDS TO READING


• Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures


• Shakespeare's Complex Words


• Further Reading


• Index of First Lines

About the author

Paul Hammond was educated at Peter Symonds' School, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Prize Fellow from 1978-82. He subsequently taught at the University of Leeds, where he has been Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. His books include Restoration Literature: An Anthology (OUP, 2002), Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester (OUP, 2002, co-edited with Andrew Hadfield), Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (The Arden Shakespeare, 2005, co-edited with David Hopkins), Dryden: Selected Poems (Longman, 2006), The Strangeness of Tragedy (OUP, 2009), and John Milton: Life, Writings, Reputation (OUP for the British Academy, 2010, co-edited with Blair Worden).

Summary

Shakespeare's Sonnets are the most famous and controversial love poems in the English language. This book is both an edition of these poems and a guide to how to read them. It is the only current edition which provides an original-spelling text, and prints the poems as they appeared in the first edition, Shake-speares Sonnets(1609).

Additional text

insightful, pleasant to read, and useful.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hammond, Paul (Professor of Seventeenth-Century En Hammond
• Assisted by: Paul Hammond (Editor), Paul (Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature Hammond (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9780198728016
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872801-6
• No. of pages: 510
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, POETRY / Shakespeare, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean