A companion to shakespeares sonnets wiley online books. He is the editor of shakespeare s sonnets new haven, 1977, and the author of an essay on shakespeares sonnets new haven, 1969 and king lear, macbeth, indefinition, and tragedy new haven, 1983. The authoritative edition of shakespeare s sonnets from the folger shakespeare library, the trusted and widely used shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes. Buy essay on shakespeares sonnets by stephen booth isbn.
John kerrigan, the sonnets and a lovers complaint, penguin classics, harmondsworth, 1986. He has written numerous essays and papers on shakespeare and five books including shakespeare s sonnets, edited with analytic commentary, for which he won both the 1977 james russell lowell prize and. Shakespeares sonnets are poems that william shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes. He is the editor of shakespeare s sonnets new haven, 1977, and the author of an essay on shakespeare s sonnets new haven, 1969 and king lear, macbeth, indefinition, and tragedy new haven, 1983. Refreshingly different, professor booth s book reduces the usual questions about biography, dating, and ordering the poems to six pages of an appendix, while the four hundred pages of notes continue the exciting amplification of possibilities in reading that he began in his wellreceived an essay on shakespeare s sonnets.
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Shakespeare s 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by time. If youre studying shakespeare s sonnets and looking for a detailed and helpful guide to the poems, we recommend stephen booth s hugely informative edition, shakespeare s sonnets yale nota bene. However, there are six additional sonnets that shakespeare wrote and included in the plays romeo and juliet, henry v and. This prizewinning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. The shakespearean actor as kamikaze pilot, shakespeare quarterly, 36 1985, 55370. Katherine duncanjones, shakespeares sonnets, the arden shakespeare, 1997. Buy essay on shakespeares sonnets by stephen booth online at alibris. The listed critical essays and books will be invaluable for writing essays and papers on shakespeares sonnets. The language of shakespeare s sonnets, like that of poetry in general, is both highly compressed and highly structured. Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the facing page of each sonnet a brief introduction to each sonnet, providing insight into its possible meaning. Stephen booth s notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that. Buy the paperback book shakespeares sonnets by william shakespeare at indigo. Buy shakespeares sonnets yale nota bene by stephen booth isbn. He was a marshall scholar and studied at the university of cambridge and harvard university.
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