The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English. Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616. Klappentext Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer. Zusammenfassung Part of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. It also includes the sonnet "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Product details

• Authors: Coralie Bickford-Smith, John Kerrigan, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustration), Joh Kerrigan (Editor), John Kerrigan (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780141192574
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119257-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Clothbound Classics; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Penguin Clothbound Classics; CLOTHBOUND CLAS; Penguin Classics; A Penguin Classics Hardcover; Penguin Clothbound Classics; CLOTHBOUND CLAS
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights