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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Page 168
... fingers walk with gentle gait , 12 Making dead wood more blest than living lips . Since saucy jacks so happy are in this , Give them thy fingers , me thy lips to kiss . 2 wood keys ( of the spinet or virginal ) 2 motion movement 3 thou ...
... fingers walk with gentle gait , 12 Making dead wood more blest than living lips . Since saucy jacks so happy are in this , Give them thy fingers , me thy lips to kiss . 2 wood keys ( of the spinet or virginal ) 2 motion movement 3 thou ...
Page 235
... fingers ; mine ear , thy hand ; my lips , thy fingers ; thy fingers , me , thy lips - thereby exhibiting the private , but frustrated , desire for union which has engendered the speaker's mock jealousy of the instrument's " saucy jacks ...
... fingers ; mine ear , thy hand ; my lips , thy fingers ; thy fingers , me , thy lips - thereby exhibiting the private , but frustrated , desire for union which has engendered the speaker's mock jealousy of the instrument's " saucy jacks ...
Page 238
... fingers and lips , he entirely a yearn- ing pair of living lips . And only one action is permitted to exist - the touch of one element to another , the kiss of fingers to wood , or lips to lips . The problem of conveying , in a comic ...
... fingers and lips , he entirely a yearn- ing pair of living lips . And only one action is permitted to exist - the touch of one element to another , the kiss of fingers to wood , or lips to lips . The problem of conveying , in a comic ...
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appearance argument bear beauty beauty's become believe better cold dear death desire dost doth edition effect Elizabethan example experience express eyes face fact fair false fear feeling figure fingers flower gentle give grace hand happy hast hath heart Henry hold imagery jacks keep kind kiss leaves less lines lips live look love's lover meaning metaphors mind nature never night once perhaps person play poem poet possible praise present prince prove published reason reference rich seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare sight sonnets speak spirit stand suggest summer's sweet tell thee thine things thou art thought thyself Time's true truth turn University Press verse virtue wish worth write written youth