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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... face or a beautiful expression , " though I am still referring to something physical - I could not make the statement if I were blind - I am speaking of something which is per- sonal , a unique face which cannot be compared with that of ...
... face or a beautiful expression , " though I am still referring to something physical - I could not make the statement if I were blind - I am speaking of something which is per- sonal , a unique face which cannot be compared with that of ...
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... face May still seem love to me , though altered new , Thy looks with me , thy heart in other place . For there can live no hatred in thine eye ; Therefore in that I cannot know thy change . In many's looks , the false heart's history Is ...
... face May still seem love to me , though altered new , Thy looks with me , thy heart in other place . For there can live no hatred in thine eye ; Therefore in that I cannot know thy change . In many's looks , the false heart's history Is ...
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... face ( " Look in thy glass , and tell the face thou viewest . . . " ) , and Sonnet IV takes up and expands the third quatrain of Sonnet II , turning as it does entirely upon beauty as treasure , inheritance , and a matter for the ...
... face ( " Look in thy glass , and tell the face thou viewest . . . " ) , and Sonnet IV takes up and expands the third quatrain of Sonnet II , turning as it does entirely upon beauty as treasure , inheritance , and a matter for the ...
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Afterword beauteous beauty's beloved Bergenfield blessèd C. S. Lewis canst cold conceit confounds couplet dear death decay dost thou doth edge of doom edition editors Elizabethan emended express fair false Falstaff fingers flower Folio Francis Meres gentle George Eliot give grace happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Henry Condell imagery jacks Jane Austen kiss leaves lily lines lips live look love's lover metaphors mind mistress Muse nature nature's niggard night person play poem poet praise prince prove quarto quatrain rhyme seems sense sestet sexual shadow Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets shame Stratford summer's synecdoche tell thine eye things thou art thou dost thought thy beauty thy love thy sweet thyself Time's true truth University Press verse virtue Vision of Eros W. H. AUDEN William Empson William Shakespeare wilt words write youth