Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets Retold written by William Shakespeare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm ... A dazzling success’ – Stephen Fry Rediscover the greatest love poetry ever written Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? You’re more delightful, always shining strong; High winds blow hard on flowering buds in May, And summer never seems to last that long... Shakespeare’s sonnets are some of the nation’s favourite lines of verse, but the Elizabethan language can make it difficult to really understand them. Many guides offer to clarify the meaning, but lose the magic of the words by explaining them away. James Anthony has done something boldly different. He has rewritten the whole series of poems as sonnets using modern language, while retaining the rhythm and rhyme patterns that gives them such power. In doing so he breathes new life into the original poems and opens them up for a modern readership, demystifying Shakespeare’s eternal poetry with provocative new translations and delightful new lines. Presented as an attractive book with the original sonnets facing their new translations, this is a stunning collection of beautiful love poems, made new.
Download or read book Who Wrote Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Kenneth Farnol and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long overdue investigation carefully questions the authorship of many of 'Shakespeare's' Sonnets. The Sonnets have to be seen as a collection of individual true-life accounts by different male and female writers to be properly understood. This is the key to the integrity of these literary masterpieces. When read in this light: a clear picture soon emerges. The simple logic of these findings certainly demands further academic and non-academic attention. Some of the more satirical sonnets were indeed by Shakespeare but most were probably by 'Rival Poet' members of the aristocratic Sidney family. Many were private and confidential and patently never approved for publication. This is an extremely important point. Sonnets are not about theatre they are about real life. Several sonnets show clearly feminine style and content. The natural beauty of those by the unmistakable Mary Sidney/Herbert, Lady Pembroke; Nos.1-17, at least, shines out from the best of them. Further sonnets by her son William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and her niece Mary Sidney/Wroth are of considerable historical and romantic interest. The evidence is overwhelming. However, we must seriously challenge the overbearing weight of centuries of sexism, false premises and half-truths surrounding the Sonnets. Prevailing pseudo-homosexual 'Fair Youth' myths, for example, are deemed dubious, distracting and unconvincing. Shakespeare was evidently not comfortable with the sonnet format but the glory, authorship and integrity of his Plays remains unsurpassed. When reading the Sonnets we find further real-life male/female stories of adolescent infatuation, ambition, and scandal in the shadow of the early 17th C. Royal Court. Just read the Sonnets in this book and then judge for yourself!
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Kenneth Farnol and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of pro/anti Shakespeare factions: there are many reasons to question the authorship of 'Shakespeare's' Sonnets. This independent book compares and discusses a number of the 'Shakespeare' Sonnets with some remarkable findings. The mixed-gender Sonnets are clearly Satirical, Aristocratic or Political by nature. They were self-evidently never intended for publication in 1609. This study does not depend on unconvincing folklore or 'theories' but relies on significant evidence from the Sonnets themselves. It is advised that this book seriously challenges the status-quo. Curiously, these diverse Sonnets appear in recognisable 'blocs' of separate authorship in accordance with the non-sequential 1609 'pirated' numbering scheme. See Tables. William Shakespeare indeed wrote some of the 1609 Sonnets bearing his name, e.g., 126-154. Others, were most likely to have been written by members of the eminent Sidney/Herbert/Wroth family, together with other unknown authors. Many, such as 1-17, plainly relate to intimate heterosexual arranged-marriage issues. Those by the idiosyncratically 'Sweet' Lady Pembroke and her wayward 'Fair Youth' son William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, (who 'owned' the Sonnets) are instantly recognisable. Attention is drawn to the long-overlooked Mary Wroth/'Worth' puns and cruel sexual metaphors in Sonnets 80 and 83 alone. Subject to recent scholarship and freedom from an exclusively 'Shakespeare' mindset; this long-overdue guide-book encourages open-minded readers to re-read the Sonnets at simple face-value and draw their own conclusions...
Download or read book Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems written by Jesse Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets Reconsidered written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Authorship of the Sonnets written by Dennis Hirsch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persona of Edward de Vere represents a contrast to the canonical, Stratfordian image of Shakespeare. His adulterous affair with a teenage girl half his age, his complicity in acts of treason against Queen Elizabeth, and the bankruptcy of his earldom due to his lavish spending all combine to paint a picture of a man contrary to the Stratfordian ideal. However, it is this unattractive portrayal of him that supports the argument that de Vere wrote the sonnets, since the sonnets themselves offer up underlying messages of ridicule, deception, avarice, and sexual obsession that doggedly champion the author's own best interests above others. This work presents an Oxfordian reading of the sonnets and the problematic life of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
Download or read book Sonnet s Shakespeare written by Sonnet L'Abbe and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé returns with her third collection, in which a mixed-race woman decomposes her inheritance of Shakespeare by breaking open the sonnet and inventing an entirely new poetic form. DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE FINALIST RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary values? In Sonnet's Shakespeare, one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use "the master's tools" on the Bard's "house," attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her pysche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "aggrocultured" Shakespearean sonnet--displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced. L'Abbé invented the process of Sonnet's Shakespeare to find a way to sing from a body that knows both oppression and privilege. She uses the procedural techniques of Oulipian constraint and erasure poetries to harness the raw energies of her hyperconfessional, trauma-forged lyric voice. This is an artist's magnum opus and mixed-race girlboy's diary; the voice of a settler on stolen Indigenous territories, a sexual assault survivor, a lover of Sylvia Plath and Public Enemy. Touching on such themes as gender identity, pop music, nationhood, video games, and the search for interracial love, this book is a poetic achievement of undeniable scope and significance.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets and the Bible written by Ira B. Zinman and published by World Wisdom Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent to which Shakespeare derived the inspiration for his plays and Sonnets from the Bible has sparked debate for centuries. Although much research has been done on Shakespeare's plays, a comprehensive analysis of his Sonnets has been absent, until now. This book gives a detailed examination of Shakespeare's Sonnets, identifying their underlying spiritual themes at the religious and scriptural levels of interpretation.
Download or read book The Complete Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Poems Sonnets of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language
Download or read book Shakespeare s Son and His Sonnets written by Hank Whittemore and published by Martin and Lawrence Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new view of Shakespeare's sonnets that brings them alive as a chronicle of political intrigue, passion, and betrayal.
Download or read book Shakespeare Love Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of sonnets from the works of William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, Samuel Daniel, John Donne, John Milton.
Download or read book The Diverse Authorship of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Kenneth Farnol and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is proposed that William Shakespeare did not write all of the sonnets bearing his name. This strictly independent publication compares and discusses all 154 'Shakespeare's' Sonnets with some remarkable findings. There are many valid reasons to question the authorship of 'Shakespeare's' Sonnets. They are clearly Satirical, Aristocratic or Political and were self-evidently never intended for illicit publication in 1609. This impartial book does not depend on unconvincing folklore or 'theories' but relies on evidence from the Sonnets themselves. William Shakespeare indeed wrote some of the Sonnets bearing his name. Many, by style and content, were more likely to have been written by the eminent Sidney/Herbert/Wroth family together with other unknown authors. Who has never wondered about the first-person authorship of 'maternal' Sonnet Nos. 1-17? Were these intimate family Sonnets really 'commissioned' to be written by a busy playwright when they are plainly in the 'sweet' metaphysical style of the distinguished poet Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke? Then, who can deny that long-overlooked Mary (Sidney) 'Wroth/Worth' puns and insensitive metaphors in Sonnet Nos. 80 and 83 were probably written by her 'Fair Youth' cousin/lover William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (who clearly 'owned' the Sonnets) on the occasion of her arranged-marriage in 1604? Subject to recent scholarship and freedom from an exclusively 'Shakespeare' mindset: this long-overdue investigation encourages open-minded readers to reread the Sonnets at simple face-value and draw their own conclusions...
Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnets and Other Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the long narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece,” and several other shorter works. Incorporating definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works, this unique volume also includes an expanded Introduction by Jonathan Bate that places the poems in literary and historical context and illuminates their relationship to Shakespeare’s dramatic writing. Also featured are key facts about the individual selections; an index of the first lines of the sonnets; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and recommendations for further reading. Ideal for students and general readers alike, this modern and accessible edition sets a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Sonnets and a Lover s Complaint written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
