The Sonnets
2nd Edition
Published on 24. July 2013
978-1-139-83426-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: Second Grade and over, Interest Age: From 12 years
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
3 Halftones, unspecified
File size
6962,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-139-83426-1 (9781139834261)
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Book
06/2006
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
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William Shakespeare | G. Blakemore Evans
The Sonnets
Introducion by Anthony Hecht. Edited by Gwynne Blakemore Evans
Book
06/2006
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€88.70
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Persons
Content
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.
