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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William Shakespeare William Burto. of the same metaphors with a shift of feeling in them . The legal metaphors ( debts to nature and so forth ) used for the loving complaint that the man's chastity was selfish are still used when he ...
William Shakespeare William Burto. of the same metaphors with a shift of feeling in them . The legal metaphors ( debts to nature and so forth ) used for the loving complaint that the man's chastity was selfish are still used when he ...
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... metaphor in this speech , whether Shakespeare wrote it or not , developed afterwards as a whole in his mind . The ... metaphors which had been used to urge abrogation of chastity on W. H .; nor is this irrelevant to the play . As in ...
... metaphor in this speech , whether Shakespeare wrote it or not , developed afterwards as a whole in his mind . The ... metaphors which had been used to urge abrogation of chastity on W. H .; nor is this irrelevant to the play . As in ...
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... metaphors for a lifetime ; the fire has to do both with the heat and life of summer and noonday as well as with the vital essence of life . The richness of the sonnet derives more from its metaphorical involutions than it does from the ...
... metaphors for a lifetime ; the fire has to do both with the heat and life of summer and noonday as well as with the vital essence of life . The richness of the sonnet derives more from its metaphorical involutions than it does from the ...
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