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 xxii
... possible to return to the innocent happiness expressed before any cloud appeared on the sky . It is not , it seems to me , possible to believe that , after going through the experiences described in Son- nets 40-42 , Shakespeare would ...
... possible to return to the innocent happiness expressed before any cloud appeared on the sky . It is not , it seems to me , possible to believe that , after going through the experiences described in Son- nets 40-42 , Shakespeare would ...
Page xxvi
... possible , and there is scarcely a line , even in the dull ones , which sounds harsh or awkward . Occasion- ally , there are lines which foreshadow the freedom of his later verse . For example : Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul ...
... possible , and there is scarcely a line , even in the dull ones , which sounds harsh or awkward . Occasion- ally , there are lines which foreshadow the freedom of his later verse . For example : Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul ...
Page 197
... possible such meanings , di- gested into some order , and then try to show how this is done , but the mere number of possible interpretations is amusingly too great . Taking the simplest view ( that any two may be alike in some one ...
... possible such meanings , di- gested into some order , and then try to show how this is done , but the mere number of possible interpretations is amusingly too great . Taking the simplest view ( that any two may be alike in some one ...
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