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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... less educated than themselves , but it was respectable enough : players , if prosperous , were in effect members of the bourgeoisie , and there is nothing to suggest that Strat- ford considered William Shakespeare less than a solid citi ...
... less educated than themselves , but it was respectable enough : players , if prosperous , were in effect members of the bourgeoisie , and there is nothing to suggest that Strat- ford considered William Shakespeare less than a solid citi ...
Page 136
... less ; Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort . As on the finger of a throned queen The basest jewel will be well esteemed , So are those errors that in thee are seen To truths translated and for true things deemed . How many ...
... less ; Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort . As on the finger of a throned queen The basest jewel will be well esteemed , So are those errors that in thee are seen To truths translated and for true things deemed . How many ...
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... less superficial than the cold people " ) or of the cold people's excellence ( with a sug- gestion of " Their Excellencies " ) ; the less plausible sense is insisted on by the comma after others . This repeats the doubt about how far ...
... less superficial than the cold people " ) or of the cold people's excellence ( with a sug- gestion of " Their Excellencies " ) ; the less plausible sense is insisted on by the comma after others . This repeats the doubt about how far ...
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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