The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet (Introduction)

Overview

The Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare Series

The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars.

An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and sonnets by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University Special introduction to The Sonnets, by W.H. Auden Facsimilies of the 1609 quarto edition of The Sonnets Textual Note, including a facsimilie showing a variant form of one sonnet Literary criticism by William Empson, Hallett Smith, Winifred M. T. Nowottny, and Helen Vendler Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type Up-to-date list of recommended readings

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451527271
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/1999
Series:	Signet Classic Shakespeare Series
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	4.19(w) x 6.81(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. 

A. R. Braunmuller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. 

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include Imagining Shakespeare, The Authentic Shakespeare, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England and The Illusion of Power.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

The Sonnets - William Shakespeare Edited by William Burto with an Introduction by W. H. Auden

Shakespeare: An Overview
Biographical Sketch
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians
The Shakespeare Canon
Shakespeare's English
The Sonnets
Introduction
The Sonnets
Textual Note
Commentaries
William Empson: They That Have Power
Hallett Smith: From Elizabethan Poetry
Winifred M. T. Nowottny: Formal Elements in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sonnets 1-6
Helen Vendler: Sonnet 116

Suggested References
Index of First Lines

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