Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author(s)

• Shakespeare, William
• Booth, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare's Sonnets

edited with analytic commentary by Stephen Booth

Yale University Press, c1977

• : cloth
• : paper

Uniform Title

Sonnets

Note

"The text of the 1609 quarto (Apsley imprint, the Huntington-Bridgewater copy) and an edited text printed in parallel": p. [1]-[133]

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival poet'? When were the Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding their publication?

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Details

• NCID: BA04205304
• ISBN:
  • 0300019599
  • 0300024959
• LCCN: 76056161
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 583 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR2848.A2
  • DC : 821/.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography – Quartos
  • LCSH : Sonnets, English
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00015720