| Reviews |
| - 'I cannot imagine any other secondary source that could be as useful as this slender volume.' - Elizabeth Holtze, Rocky Mountain Review
- 'This is an admirably clear book about obscurity. The authors ask many impossible questions, then satisfy our curiosity while leaving them unanswered. The Sonnets are already opaque as we approach them. The famous introductory dedication to Mr W.H. has inspired volumes of misplaced ingenuity, enough to shadow the poems themselves. Trying to find Mr W.S. inside those 2000 enigmatic lines needs
sense, sensibility, time, curiosity, patience and scholarship. Edmondson and Wells have those qualities. Though the centre of the labyrinth is never reached, they are lively and trustworthy guides.' - Tom Deveson, Around the Globe
- 'elegant...This book is excellent on links between theatre and sonnets...The book is also a consideration, even a celebration, of what, precisely, makes Shakespeare's verse so compelling.' - TLS
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| Description | | - The only book to provide a guide to the Sonnets for students and general readers.
- Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism.
- Professor Stanley Wells is a leading authority on Shakespeare and has written extensively for Oxford University Press.
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Readership: Scholars, teachers, and students of Shakespeare, including advanced A-level, undergraduate and post-graduate English.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
The Early Publication of the Sonnets
3.
History and Emergence of the Sonnet as a Literary Form
4.
The Sonnets in Relation to Shakespeare's Life
5.
The Form of Shakespeare's Sonnets
6.
The Artistry of the Sonnets
7.
Content of the Sonnets
8.
The Sonnets as Theatre
9.
The Place of 'A Lover's Complaint'
10.
Later Publication of the Sonnets
11.
Critical Reputation of the Sonnets
12.
Ways in which Writers have Engaged Creatively with the Sonnets
13.
Survey of More Recent Current Sonnet Criticism Treated Thematically
14.
Sonnets and Performance
15.
Conclusion
16.
Further Reading
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Paul Edmondson, Head of Education, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and
Stanley Wells, Chairman, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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