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 viii
... Perhaps the poaching episode is true ( but it is first reported almost a century after Shakespeare's death ) , or perhaps he first left Stratford to be a schoolteacher , as another tradition holds ; perhaps he was moved by Such wind as ...
... Perhaps the poaching episode is true ( but it is first reported almost a century after Shakespeare's death ) , or perhaps he first left Stratford to be a schoolteacher , as another tradition holds ; perhaps he was moved by Such wind as ...
Page xxxvi
... perhaps less , than our own . After all , sodomy was still a capital offense . The poets of the period , like ... Perhaps poets are more likely to experience it than others , or become poets because they have . Perhaps xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
... perhaps less , than our own . After all , sodomy was still a capital offense . The poets of the period , like ... Perhaps poets are more likely to experience it than others , or become poets because they have . Perhaps xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
Page 175
... ( perhaps the poet , perhaps the friend , perhaps the woman's husband , perhaps all ; Will is capital- ized and italicized in this and in the next sonnet wherever it so appears in the quarto ) ( 2 ) desire , volition 3,9 still always 4 ...
... ( perhaps the poet , perhaps the friend , perhaps the woman's husband , perhaps all ; Will is capital- ized and italicized in this and in the next sonnet wherever it so appears in the quarto ) ( 2 ) desire , volition 3,9 still always 4 ...
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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