Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets has been a consistent best-seller in the Arden Shakespeare series. Katherine Duncan-Jones tackles the controversies and mysteries surrounding these beautiful poems head on, and explores the issues of sexuality to be found in them, making this a truly modern edition for today's readers and students. This revised edition has been updated and corrected in the light of new scholarship and critical thinking since its first publication.
Goldberg, Sodometries, 64–76. 26. Smith, 84–88. Kenneth Charlton, Ed- ucation in Renaissance England (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, ¡965), ¡49–50. See also Bray, Homosexuality, 5¡–53. 27. Bray, Homosexuality, 45–5¡. 28. Alan Bray ...
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: -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the facing ...
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARYTHE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES"This edition includes: " Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the page facing each sonnet and poem A brief introduction to each...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved
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 ...
... authenticity in the 1960s,1 and for a while the matter seemed to be settled, but in recent years scholars have rearticulated doubts about the attribution. Brian Vickers thoroughly signalled his doubt in Counterfeiting Shakespeare ...
1978 ) Kerrigan John Kerrigan , ed . , The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint ( Harmondsworth , 1986 ) Kerrigan 2 John Kerrigan , ed . , The Motives of Woe : Shakespeare and “ Female Complaint . A Critical Anthology ( Oxford ...
The Principal Objective Of This Book Is To Explain The Sonnets For Common Readers, And To Discuss Some Very Topical Questions About Them.
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 ...