Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author(s): William Shakespeare
Shakespeare | New Zealand Poetry
This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897.
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- : Thomson Learning
- : Thomson Learning
- : 01 January 2004
- : books
Special Fields
- : William Shakespeare
- : Paperback
- : good
- : 488