The Life in the Sonnets

by David Fuller, Ewan Fernie (Editor), Simon Palfrey (Editor)

Overview

A passionately argued account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poetry aloud. This book is accompanied by a companion website, featuring a complete reading of all 154 Shakespeare Sonnets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847064547
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/21/2011
Series:	Shakespeare Now!
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Durham, UK. From 2002 to 2007 he was the University's Orator. He trained as a musicologist, and has written on a range of literary topics from Medieval to Modern. He is the author of Blake's Heroic Argument (1988), James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (1992), Signs of Grace (with David Brown, 1995). He has edited Tamburlaine the Great (1998) for the Clarendon Press complete works of Marlowe, co-edited (with Patricia Waugh) The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (OUP, 1999), and edited Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose (Longman, 2000, 2008).

Table of Contents

1. Prologue: A Discipline without Boundaries / 2. Imagining Feelings / 3. Dwelling in the Words: Reading Aloud / References / Index