Two loves I have : a new reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets / J. D. Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Joe, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.

Shakespeare, William.

Sonnets, English--History and criticism.

Sonnets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne, England : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare's Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two Loves I Have is a reading of the sequence that brings the four characters involved to life. The 'fair, kind and true' young man to whom the majority of poems are addressed, the woman 'as black as hell, as dark as night' who dominates a part of the narrator's inner landscape against his will, the narrator himself, who at times is unexpectedly wholly at ease with his mistress, but at other times is sunk in a form of self-loathing, and whom nothing on earth will deter in his devotion to the young man ... these three play out a drama as fierce as that in any of the author's plays.

Contents:

Front Cover; About the Author; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The Sonnets; Bibliographical Note; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78284-310-8

1-78284-312-4

OCLC:

933587991