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 xxxiii
... person , whether human or Divine ; he can only think in terms of the in- dividual and the universal , and beauty ... person of the beloved creature to the Person of their common Creator . It is consistent with Shakespeare's cast of mind ...
... person , whether human or Divine ; he can only think in terms of the in- dividual and the universal , and beauty ... person of the beloved creature to the Person of their common Creator . It is consistent with Shakespeare's cast of mind ...
Page xxxvi
... person , but in terms of classical mythology . Renaissance Italy had the reputation for being tolerant on this subject , yet , when Michelangelo's nephew published his sonnets to Tomasso de Cavalieri , which are much more restrained ...
... person , but in terms of classical mythology . Renaissance Italy had the reputation for being tolerant on this subject , yet , when Michelangelo's nephew published his sonnets to Tomasso de Cavalieri , which are much more restrained ...
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... person subjected to very unusually bad luck , and then a moral is drawn , not merely by inference but by solemn assertion , that we are all in the same boat as this person whose story is striking precisely because it is un- usual . The ...
... person subjected to very unusually bad luck , and then a moral is drawn , not merely by inference but by solemn assertion , that we are all in the same boat as this person whose story is striking precisely because it is un- usual . The ...
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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