An updated and revised edition of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Lucrece's suicide—a deliberative act meant to restore order within and outside herself, thus satisfying both personal and societal demands—should be read as “positive, constructive, and self-creative.” Bullough, Geoffrey, ed.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved
"Tor some hard-favored groom of thine,' quoth he, Unless thou yoke thy liking to my will, 111 murder straight, and then I'll slaughter thee, And swear I found you where you did fulfill 1635 The loathsome act of lust, and so did kill The ...
To the speaker, it is inconceivable that anyone could fail to fall in love with that face, even if the beholder were of the same sex as the face. “If I, a man, could fall in love with that face, even though it belongs to one of my own ...
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This collection of masterful reinterpretations brilliantly demystifies and breathes new life into Shakespeare's work, demonstrating the continued resonance of a playwright whose popularity remains over 400 years after his death.
From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame ...
96 (Beal ShV25). * Rosenbach Foundation, MS 1083/16, pp. 256–7 (Beal ShV26). * See Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Burrow, p. 592. * This lyric was printed in Pembroke's 1660 Poems (ed. Donne), p. 54.
This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field.
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