The SonnetsNew American Library, 1988 - 246 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... Shake - scene in a country . The reference to the player , as well as the allusion to Aesop's crow ( who strutted in borrowed plumage , as an actor struts in fine words not his own ) , makes it clear that by this date Shakespeare had ...
... Shake - scene in a country . The reference to the player , as well as the allusion to Aesop's crow ( who strutted in borrowed plumage , as an actor struts in fine words not his own ) , makes it clear that by this date Shakespeare had ...
Page 221
... shake against the cold , Bare ruin'd choirs , where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west , Which by and by black night doth take away , Death's second self , that ...
... shake against the cold , Bare ruin'd choirs , where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west , Which by and by black night doth take away , Death's second self , that ...
Page 223
... shaking against the cold and of the bare ruin'd choirs ; not only this but he also says , " I believe everybody will deprecate sweet " ( " Shake- speare at Sonnets , " p . 550 ) . Tucker , on the other hand , does not depre- cate it ...
... shaking against the cold and of the bare ruin'd choirs ; not only this but he also says , " I believe everybody will deprecate sweet " ( " Shake- speare at Sonnets , " p . 550 ) . Tucker , on the other hand , does not depre- cate it ...
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