Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare The Complete Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric. That poem was so popular that most of Shakespeare's contemporaries thought of him as primarily a poet, rather than a playwright. Yet despite the power of Shakespeare's poems, and their foundational place within his oeuvre, modern readers have seldom been encouraged to engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This new edition explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it needs to be changed. The volume contains the complete Sonnets and poems with a full commentary. An extensive and lively introduction explores Shakespeare's poetic development, and shows how the poems relate to each other and to his dramatic works. The Sonnets are freshly interpreted, not as cryptic fragments of autobiography, but as works which ask their readers to think about relationships between lyric poems and the historical circumstances which may have given rise to them. The narrative poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are placed where they belong, at the origin of Shakespeare's thinking about what it means to desire and to be desired. The edition responds to the most recent scholarly work on the interpretation and dating of Shakespeare's poems and Sonnets. It also explores what the poems may have meant to their earliest readers. For this reason it also includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century, as well as those printed under his name in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599.

Download or read book Folger Library Two Decades of Growth written by Louis B. Wright and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interpretations in Shakespeare s Sonnet written by Hilton Landry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interpretations in Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Hilton Landry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thinking with Shakespeare written by William Poole and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeares works do not embody any doctrine or set of beliefs, as his critics have long been tempted to suggest, but they do stage encounters with certain kinds of thinking ethical, political, epistemological, even metaphysical that still concern us nowadays. They can be shown to draw on ancient philosophies Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism either directly or through medieval and continental Renaissance thought. Or their scenarios can be likened to those of other kinds of intellectual argument, such as legal or theological discourse. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare, either as embodied in Shakespeares own creative programme or in our use of philosophical paradigms as an approach to his works. The contributors are Colin Burrow, Terence Cave, Gabriel Josipovoci, Charles Martindale, Stephen Medcalf, Subha Mukherji, A. D. Nuttall and N. K. Sugimura.

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Chronological table of Shakespeare s life Tempest Two gentlemen of Verona Merry wives of Windsor Measure for measure Comedy of errors Much ado about nothing Love s labour s lost Midsummer night s dream Merchant of Venice As you like it Taming of the shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The game s afoot written by Cynthia Lewis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the age-old feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet, the enduring rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama. Macbeth's career began with promise but ended in ruin--not unlike Pete Rose's. Twelfth Night's Viola's disguise as a boy to enter into a man's world is echoed in Babe Didrikson Zaharias' challenge to the pro golf patriarchy when she competed in the Los Angeles Open. Exploring parallels between Shakespeare's plays and famous events in the world of sports, this book introduces seven of the best-known plays to the sports enthusiast and offers a fresh perspective to Shakespeare devotees.

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare Edited with a scrupulous revision of the text by C and M Cowden Clarke written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare King Henry IV pt II King Henry V The merry wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare Edited with Revision of the Text by C and M Cowden Clarke The Leicester Square Edition with Portrait and Illustrations from the Boydell Gallery in Permanent Photography written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare King Richard III King John Merchant of Venice King Henry IV pt I II written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Tragedies Romeo and Juliet Othello Hamlet Macbeth King Lear Cymbeline Timon of Athens Coriolanus Julius Caesar Anthony and Cleopatra Troilus and Cressida Titus Andronicus Pericles written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: