The Sonnets

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung For this second edition of The Sonnets! Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. The volume follows the 1609 quarto and retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans! together with his detailed textual notes and line-by-line commentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: G. Blakemore Evans (Editor), Gwynne Blakemore Evans (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521678377
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67837-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS); The New Cambridge Shakespeare; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Shakespeare, William : Erläuterungen zum Werk