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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... thyself alone , Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive . Then how when Nature calls thee to be gone , 12 What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee , Which , used , lives th ' executor to be ...
... thyself alone , Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive . Then how when Nature calls thee to be gone , 12 What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee , Which , used , lives th ' executor to be ...
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... thyself art so unprovident . Grant if thou wilt , thou art beloved of many , But that thou none lov'st is most evident ; For thou art so possessed with murd❜rous hate , That ' gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire , Seeking that ...
... thyself art so unprovident . Grant if thou wilt , thou art beloved of many , But that thou none lov'st is most evident ; For thou art so possessed with murd❜rous hate , That ' gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire , Seeking that ...
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... thyself alone , Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive . Then how when nature calls thee to be gone ? What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? Thy unus'd beauty must be tomb'd with thee , Which , used , lives , th'executor to be ...
... thyself alone , Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive . Then how when nature calls thee to be gone ? What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? Thy unus'd beauty must be tomb'd with thee , Which , used , lives , th'executor to be ...
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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