Download or read book The Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quarto's spelling, punctuation, and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power.
Download or read book The True History of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Alfred Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Sonnets Are, Generally, Easy Poems, Shakespeare S Sonnets Are Not, And Very Naturally, He Being A Master-Mind, His Sonnets Are Far From Easy To Understand. The Principal Objective Of This Book Is To Explain The Sonnets For Common Readers, And To Discuss Some Very Topical Questions About Them. The Author Persistently Kept In Mind The Difficulties Of General Readers In Understanding The Sonnets, And So He Meticulously Avoided Pedantry. The Book May Be Deemed To Be Divided Into Two Parts : The First Part Discusses Some Very Important General Topics Relating To The Sonnets; And The Second Part Devotes Itself Entirely To Explaining, Line By Line, The Sonnets, Keeping Close To The Themes Of Them. Difficult Words And Concepts Have Been Carefully Explained. The Texts Of All The 154 Sonnets Have Been Given For The Benefit Of Readers.
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 The True History of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 215 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 2009-08-04 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 Hidden in Plain Sight written by Peter Rush and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true meaning of Shakespeare's Sonnets, first discovered by Hank Whittemore, systematically proved to show who Shakespeare really was, who the "young man" and "dark lady" were, and the true historical events that the Sonnets actually chronicle.
Download or read book So Long as Men Can Breathe written by Clinton Heylin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively, fascinating account of the publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets, noted biographer Clinton Heylin brings their convoluted history to light, beginning with the first complete appearance of the Sonnets in print in May, 1609. He introduces us to the "unholy alliance" involved in this precarious enterprise: Thomas Thorpe, the publisher, a self-described "well wishing adventurer;" George Eld, the printer, heavily embroiled in large-scale pirating; William Aspley, the prestigious bookseller, who mysteriously ended his association with Thorpe soon after. Leaving the calamitous world of Elizabethan publishing, Heylin goes on to chart the many editions of the Sonnets through the years and the editorial decisions that led to their present configuration. Passionate, astute, and brilliantly entertaining, the result is a concise and vivid history of perhaps the greatest poetry ever written.
Download or read book Hidden In Plain Sight written by Peter Rush and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare scholars and professors whose life profession is Shakespeare freely acknowledge that the Sonnets remain a deep mystery. The scholars who have attempted glosses of every sonnet universally understand the sonnets to be written by the traditionally understood "Shakespeare" of Stratford to a younger man (sonnets 1-126) and to a woman (sonnets 127-152), who also figures prominently in many of the first 126 sonnets as well. The ostensible story as told by all authors is of a very weird love triangle between the older man (the poet), the younger man (that most agree is the 3rd Earl of Southampton), and the woman, about whose identity there is no unanimity, and no convincing candidate. It is a story of fickleness, betrayal, forgiveness, separation, and frequently disquisitions on irrelevant topics (like wig-wearing or cosmetics), with strong overtones of homosexuality (between the men) and undefinable relationships between each man and the woman.The miasma into which conventional scholarship has fallen, resorting to an internally inconsistent, often non-sensical or contradictory, narrative, betrays that all conventional critics suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding of what the sonnets are about. Such basic agreement on such manifestly erroneous premises within the academic community can only be possible if, as Thomas Kuhn in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" described the phenomenon, all scholars are operating from a fundamentally flawed paradigm-what he calls a "paradigm shift" is the only solution to such a conundrum.Hidden in Plain Sight reveals the true meaning and context of the entire sonnet series to be profoundly political, that of the succession to Elizabeth and the fortunes of the Earl of Southampton who the sonnets reveal had a claim to the throne. With this paradigm shift, the Sonnets becomes, after 400 years, intelligible, as line after line in sonnet after sonnet can now be read as parts of a consistent, reality-based narrative. The insights in Hidden in Plain Sight are based on the pioneering research and discoveries of dedicated researcher Hank Whittemore, who deserves the credit for realizing, 400 years after the original publication of the Sonnets what the sonnets are about, the results of which he has published in several volumes, most notably "The Monument" (2005). The current volume adds original material and interpretations of many sonnets, and additional contemporary evidence supporting Whittemore's ground-breaking new paradigm, but it also presents the entire case for that paradigm in a forensic manner, working from the most easily deciphered clues as to the real story progressively down to deeper and deeper levels of meaning, making the case for the new parameter much easier to follow and comprehend.While a majority of conventional critics agree that Sonnet 107 refers to the accession of James I in April of 1603, and to the almost immediate release of Southampton from the Tower of London, not one draws the required conclusion that there must therefore be a sonnet documenting when Southampton first entered the Tower. Whittemore found it (Sonnet 27), thereby establishing the intervening sonnets as written while Southampton was under arrest, making sonnets 27-126 "prison sonnets." With that huge shift as a key, a multitude of references in these sonnets at last became clear.The other required paradigm shift is to realize that the traditional candidate to be "Shakespeare", Shakspere (his usual spelling of his own name) of Stratford wasn't, and couldn't have been, the author, and that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was "Shakespeare." The Sonnets contain a multitude of passages that reveal that the author of the Sonnets HAD to be Oxford, and also many that prove that Shakspere of Stratford COULDN'T have been the author-and therefore couldn't have been Shakespeare. Read Hidden in Plain Sight to finally understand these most exquisite poems for the first time.
Download or read book The True History of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Alfred Bruce Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely a discussion of Butler's "Shakespeare's sonnets reconsidered, and in part rearranged"; the present author adopts with few exceptions Butler's arrangement and also identifies the W.H. of the sonnets with William Hughes or Hewes.
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 The Sonnets and Narrative Poems of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern sonnets–intimate, baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawn from classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by a poem like “The Phoenix and the Turtle”–permanently deepen our understanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of our greatest poet. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Download or read book The true history of shakespeare s sonnets by a douglas written by lord Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the greatest writer in the English language-perhaps in any language-and here, in one compact volume is all the verse even many of those familiar with his plays have never read. In 1593 and 1594, while English theaters were closed in response to the plague, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) turned from drama to narrative poems, and published the dyad "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," erotic meditations on lust and sexual power. Standing powerfully in opposition to each other, they also differ wildly from Shakespeare's romantic sonnets-all 154 of them are here. Also in this hard-to-find collection are the Bard's lesser known poems: "A Lover's Complaint," "The Passionate Pilgrim," "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music," and "The Phoenix and the Turtle." Rounding out the collection are poems from his plays, featuring beloved excerpts from The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, and others. Not an academic work, this lovely volume lets Shakespeare's words stand on their own, resounding-as ever they do-with their own unique power and beauty.
Download or read book A Study Guide for William Shakespeare s Sonnet 116 written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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 Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets address such themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time, and are now recognized as some of the most enduring poetry of all time.
