The SonnetsNew American Library, 1964 - 240 pages Updated edition of Shakespeare?'s Sonnets, with a brand new introduction by Stephen Orgel. |
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Page xiii
... published during his lifetime , Shakespeare seems never to have supervised their publication . There is nothing ... published : apparently treacherous actors sometimes pieced together a play for a publisher , sometimes a com- pany in ...
... published during his lifetime , Shakespeare seems never to have supervised their publication . There is nothing ... published : apparently treacherous actors sometimes pieced together a play for a publisher , sometimes a com- pany in ...
Page xxxv
... published or that he can have shown most of them to the young man and woman , whoever they were , to whom they are addressed . Suppose you had written Sonnet 57 , Being your slave , what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of ...
... published or that he can have shown most of them to the young man and woman , whoever they were , to whom they are addressed . Suppose you had written Sonnet 57 , Being your slave , what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of ...
Page xxxvi
... published . The Elizabethan age was certainly as worldly - wise and no more tolerant , perhaps less , than our own . After all , sodomy was still a capital offense . The poets of the period , like Marlowe and Barnfield , whom we know to ...
... published . The Elizabethan age was certainly as worldly - wise and no more tolerant , perhaps less , than our own . After all , sodomy was still a capital offense . The poets of the period , like Marlowe and Barnfield , whom we know to ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 195 |
Copyright | |
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