Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 0300085060

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The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by critical commentary.

The Poems
The Poems

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-01-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521294119

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This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are now generally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding The Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. The introduction to the two long narrative poems examines their place within the classical and Renaissance European traditions, an issue which also applies to The Phoenix and the Turtle. The Passionate Pilgrim is a miscellany of twenty sonnets and lyrics, containing only five poems which are certain to be Shakespeare's. John Roe analyses the conditions in which the collection was produced, and weighs the evidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover's Complaint and the much-debated question of its genre. He demonstrates how in his management of formal tropes Shakespeare, like the best Elizabethans, fashions a living language out of handbook oratory.

Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets
Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1438115865

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Provides insight into the poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare along with a brief biography.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Author: Stanley Wells

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780393316674

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An indespensable companion to The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, this is the most comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems ever compiled in a single volume. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion provides a wealth of information about the problems presented by texts and the processes by which editorial decisions are reached. The General Introduction discusses the critical and theoretical issues raised by different kinds of editions, the nature of early manuscripts, printed texts, and the evidence for the canon and chronology of Shakespeare's works. It also offers a concise history of the editing of Shakespeare and sets forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition. Included for each work, are an introduction, textual notes, press variants, discussions of emendations and problems of modernization, plausible alternative readings, and a letter-by-letter reprint of the stage directions in the control text, among other materials. --