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SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
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| By: |
Stanley W. Wells, Paul Edmondson |
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Paperback |
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£25.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019925611X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199256112 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2004 |
| Series: |
Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Written in an accessible and attractive style, this book offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. It considers questions often raised about them - do they reflect Shakespeare's personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female, be identified? What do they tell us about Shakespeare's sexuality? How do they relate to the literary tradition? How original are they in technique and in subject matter? Avoiding literary jargon,Shakespeare's Sonnets is a must read for all students of English Literature. |
| Synopsis: |
The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naive reader will find it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts - in relation to other poetry of the period, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism.Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal for students and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems. |
| Illustrations: |
8 halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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