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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... hold Elizabeth personally responsible . Nature has had nothing to do with it . This kind of beauty is always associated with the notion of moral goodness . It is impossible to imagine circumstances in which I could say : " Elizabeth has ...
... hold Elizabeth personally responsible . Nature has had nothing to do with it . This kind of beauty is always associated with the notion of moral goodness . It is impossible to imagine circumstances in which I could say : " Elizabeth has ...
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... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays ...
... hold a plea , Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? O , how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days , When rocks impregnable are not so stout , Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays ...
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... hold me , so it please thee hold That nothing me , a something , sweet , to thee . Make but my name thy love , and love that still , And then thou lovest me for my name is Will . 1 check rebuke 1 come so near ( 1 ) touch to the quick ...
... hold me , so it please thee hold That nothing me , a something , sweet , to thee . Make but my name thy love , and love that still , And then thou lovest me for my name is Will . 1 check rebuke 1 come so near ( 1 ) touch to the quick ...
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