All the sonnets of Shakespeare /

All the sonnets of Shakespeare /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Uniform title:	Sonnets
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	vii, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sonnets, English. Sonnets, English. Poetry. Sonnets. Sonnets. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12464998

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Other authors / contributors:	Edmondson, Paul, editor. Wells, Stanley, 1930- editor.
ISBN:	9781108490399 1108490395 9781108780841 9781108803526 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"For most people the phrase 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' refers to the 154 poems published in 1609 under the title Shakespeare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted. These have since appeared in numerous editions in print and on-line, ranging from plain-text reproductions through illustrated gift-books to collections with varying amounts of editorial material. Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) have been translated into most of the world's languages, anthologised, modernised, and set to music; they have inspired other works of art including plays, novels, other poetry, songs, ballets, and films; and they have been performed and recorded in a variety of media. But the sonnets that appeared first in 1609 represent only a limited proportion of Shakespeare's uses of sonnet form. Shakespeare includes sonnets in his plays at many points in his career to change, vary, and heighten the dramatic mood. ... This volume contains all the surviving sonnets of Shakespeare. It includes the 154 collected together and published in 1609 as Shakespeare's Sonnets; alternative versions of 2 of them, as well as 3 of uncertain authorship but attributed to him in the unauthorised collection published as The Passionate Pilgrim (1599); and 23 that he incorporated into the plays, making a total of 182 sonnets. For the first time in their history, we endeavor to arrange them, so far as current scholarship allows, in the order in which they were written."--
Other form:	Online version: All the sonnets of Shakespeare 1. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108780841

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Summary:	How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. Explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases of every poem and dramatic extract illuminate the meaning of these sometimes challenging but always deeply rewarding witnesses to Shakespeare's inner life and professional expertise. Beautifully printed and elegantly presented, this volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.
Physical Description:	vii, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9781108490399 1108490395 9781108780841 9781108803526