Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets Exposed Volume 1 written by fisher king and published by Industrial Curiosity. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Sonnets, the Bard's only self-published works, are arguably the most beautiful, tragic, mystifying and crazy compilation of words in the English language. For four hundred years they've been almost exclusively the domain of scholars and academics, and for four hundred years their dark magic has passed the rest of us by. Transcribed from the podcast series of the same name, this is the first in a series analysing Shakespeare's Sonnets which is aimed as much at those who have never encountered the sonnets before as at seasoned scholars. The analysis is based on the original 1609 Quarto edition and introduces a new reading based exclusively off the text and uncontaminated by contemporary theories. All proceeds will be going towards the production of a wonderfully illustrated graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's Sonnets!
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 Shakespeare s Sonnets Among His Private Friends written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to Shakespeare's Sonnets."His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." That's how Shakespeare's Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted love. The same topics are repeated: a chaste and beautiful lady, a love-sick poet dreaming only of his beloved, sunk into despair by her cruelty (cruel only because she decides to remain chaste). Shakespeare's Sonnets are like this, but with a twist-adding a love triangle that turning convention upside down. Working out all the possibilities of this intriguing story as the sonnets progress is all part of the fun.Atkins invites you to imagine that you are among the friends our poet has allowed to see his new sonnets. You'll read the poems and the discussion of each one, trying to figure out the story. See what it might have been like to read Shakespeare's Sonnets "among his private friends."This book, complete with glosses of difficult words and phrases and a thorough explanation of each poem, is as carefully edited as the acclaimed variorum edition published by Atkins in 2007, Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. It has the same sensitive readings of verse that made his variorum edition unique. (For those particularly interested in Shakespeare's use of meter, Atkins has made a complete metrical analysis of all 154 poems, which serves as an excellent companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private Friends. It is available free at amonghisprivatefriends.com.) Also unique to this edition is a look at how the last 28 sonnets about a "dark lady" may have been influenced by Christopher Marlowe's English translation of Ovid's erotic poems, Amores (Book 1 of which is included in an appendix).294 pages including appendix, bibliography and index
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 Shakespeare Self revealed in His Sonnets and Phoenix and Turtle written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol 1 written by Samiran Kumar Paul and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramas and Sonnets of William Shakespeare Vol. 1 is helpful to every learner of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who, doubtless, saw himself as merely another professional man of the theatre who moved almost casually from play-acting to playwriting. And indeed he was very much a man of his time, a man of the Elizabethan theatre, who learnt to exploit brilliantly the stagecraft, the acting, and the pub¬lic taste of his day. It happens very rarely in the history of literature that a craftsman who has acquired perfect control of his medium, masterly ease in handling the techniques and conventions of his day, is also a universal genius of the highest order, combining with his technical proficiency a unique ability to render experience in poetic language and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of hu¬man psychology. Man of the theatre, poet and expert in the human passions, Shakespeare has appealed equally to those who admire the art with which he renders a story in terms of the acted drama or the insight with which he presents states of mind and complex¬ities of attitude or the unsurpassed brilliance he shows in giving conviction and a new dimension to the utterances of his characters through the poetic speech he puts in their mouths. It is a remark¬able combination of qualities. Yet he was no poetic genius descending on the theatre from above, but a working dramatist who found himself in catering for the public theatre of his day. Unquestionably the greatest poetic dramatist of Europe, he was also Marlowe’s successor, the heir to a tradition of playwriting, which we saw developing in the preceding chapter. His contemporaries saw him as one dramatist among others—a good one, and a popular one, but no transcendent genius who left all others far behind—and to the end of his active life he showed no reluctance to collaborate with other playwrights.
Download or read book The Afterlife of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Jane Kingsley-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.
Download or read book Dark Aemilia written by Sally O'Reilly and published by Myriad Editions (US&CA). This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright; Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, a finalist for the Italian Premio del Castello del Terriccio, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry, and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets—the playwright's muse and his one true love. The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen's favorite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful, and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen's cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably. A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O'Reilly's richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition, and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England's first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages—a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself, and true to her heart.
Download or read book The Apocryphal William Shakespeare written by Sabrina Feldman and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina Feldman manages the Planetary Science Instrument Development Office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Born and raised in Riverside, California, she attended college and graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, where she enjoyed the wonderful performances of the Berkeley Shakespeare Company, studied Shakespeare's works for a semester with Professor Stephen Booth, and received a Ph.D. in experimental physics in 1996. She has worked on many different instrument development projects for NASA, and is the former deputy director of JPL's Center for Life Detection. Her scientific training, combined with a lifelong love of literature and all things Shakespearean, gives her a unique perspective on the Shakespeare authorship mystery. Dr. Feldman lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and two children. This is her first book. If William Shakespeare wrote the Bard's works... Who wrote the Shakespeare Apocrypha? During his lifetime and for many years afterwards, William Shakespeare was credited with writing not only the Bard's canonical works, but also a series of 'apocryphal' Shakespeare plays. Stylistic threads linking these lesser works suggest they shared a common author or co-author who wrote in a coarse, breezy style, and created very funny clown scenes. He was also prone to pilfering lines from other dramatists, consistent with Robert Greene's 1592 attack on William Shakespeare as an "upstart crow." The anomalous existence of two bodies of work exhibiting distinct poetic voices printed under one man's name suggests a fascinating possibility. Could William Shakespeare have written the apocryphal plays while serving as a front man for the 'poet in purple robes, ' a hidden court poet who was much admired by a literary coterie in the 1590s? And could the 'poet in purple robes' have been the great poet and statesman Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), a previously overlooked authorship candidate who is an excellent fit to the Shakespearean glass slipper? Both of these scenarios are well supported by literary and historical records, many of which have not been previously considered in the context of the Shakespeare authorship debate.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by critical commentary.
Download or read book Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford s Letters written by William Plumer Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Seasons written by Miriam Weiner and published by Downtown Bookworks. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a taste of Shakespeare with unique kid appeal. Carefully curated excerpts from Shakespeare's works accompany spectacular art to illustrate the seasons. Familiar lines such as "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate" are included along with elegant selections from King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and other famous plays and sonnets. A stunning and simple first taste of Shakespeare, this truly special book will appeal to parents and teachers as well as to children.
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 A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Shakespeare s Sonnets written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Resistance written by Clare Asquith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece a year later. Although wildly popular during Shakespeare's lifetime, to modern readers both works are almost impenetrable. But in her enthralling new book, the Shakespearean scholar Clare Asquith reveals their hidden contents: two politically charged allegories of Tudor tyranny that justified-and even urged-direct action against an unpopular regime. The poems were Shakespeare's bestselling works in his lifetime, evidence that they spoke clearly to England's wounded populace and disaffected nobility, and especially to their champion, the Earl of Essex. Shakespeare and the Resistance unearths Shakespeare's own analysis of a political and religious crisis which would shortly erupt in armed rebellion on the streets of London. Using the latest historical research, it resurrects the story of a bold bid for freedom of conscience and an end to corruption that was erased from history by the men who suppressed it. This compelling reading situates Shakespeare at the heart of the resistance movement.
