Shakespeare''s Sonnets

Zusatztext Review from previous edition the most beautifully printed text available Informationen zum Autor Stanley Wells is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 1988-97, now Emeritus Professor. He is one of the foremost Shakespeare scholars of his generation. He has edited The Complete Oxford Shakespeare, An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare, and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, amongst others. Klappentext Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Beautiful, poignant, and intriguing, they describe the poet's passionate friendship with a young man, his friend's seduction by the poet's own mistress, his friend's relationship with a rival poet, and most famously, Shakespeare's infatuation with the `Dark Lady'. All 154 sonnets are presented here, with an informative introduction and in an authoritatively edited text, along with A Lover's Complaint and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Zusammenfassung The sonnets in this collection describe Shakespeare's passionate friendship with a young man, his friend's seduction by the poet's own mistress, his friend's relationship with a rival poet and most famously, his humiliated infatuation with the Dark Lady.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Stanley Wells (Editor), Stanley W. Wells (Editor), Wells Stanley (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2003
• EAN: 9780192804464
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280446-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, POETRY / Shakespeare, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean