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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... hand : no : this my Hand will rather The multitudinous Seas incarnardine , Making the Greene one , Red . Obviously an editor will remove the superfluous capitals , and he will probably alter the spelling to " incarnadine , " but will he ...
... hand : no : this my Hand will rather The multitudinous Seas incarnardine , Making the Greene one , Red . Obviously an editor will remove the superfluous capitals , and he will probably alter the spelling to " incarnadine , " but will he ...
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... hand crushed and o'erworn ; When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow With lines and wrinkles , when his youthful morn Hath traveled on to Age's steepy night , And all those beauties whereof now he's king Are vanishing , or ...
... hand crushed and o'erworn ; When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow With lines and wrinkles , when his youthful morn Hath traveled on to Age's steepy night , And all those beauties whereof now he's king Are vanishing , or ...
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... hand will wreck it . Shakespeare schematizes the scene , as I have said , by re- duction through synecdoche . He reduces the lady , seated , into a hand and fingers ; he reduces the lover , standing beside her , into an eye , an ear ...
... hand will wreck it . Shakespeare schematizes the scene , as I have said , by re- duction through synecdoche . He reduces the lady , seated , into a hand and fingers ; he reduces the lover , standing beside her , into an eye , an ear ...
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