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All the sonnets of Shakespeare / edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Contributor:
Edmondson, Paul, editor.
Wells, Stanley, 1930- editor.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Sonnets
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sonnets, English.
Genre:
Poetry.
Sonnets.
Physical Description:
vii, 299 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Summary:
"For most people the phrase 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' refers to the 154 poems published in 1609 under the title Shakespeare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted. These have since appeared in numerous editions in print and on-line, ranging from plain-text reproductions through illustrated gift-books to collections with varying amounts of editorial material. Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) have been translated into most of the world's languages, anthologised, modernised, and set to music; they have inspired other works of art including plays, novels, other poetry, songs, ballets, and films; and they have been performed and recorded in a variety of media. But the sonnets that appeared first in 1609 represent only a limited proportion of Shakespeare's uses of sonnet form. Shakespeare includes sonnets in his plays at many points in his career to change, vary, and heighten the dramatic mood. ... This volume contains all the surviving sonnets of Shakespeare. It includes the 154 collected together and published in 1609 as Shakespeare's Sonnets; alternative versions of 2 of them, as well as 3 of uncertain authorship but attributed to him in the unauthorised collection published as The Passionate Pilgrim (1599); and 23 that he incorporated into the plays, making a total of 182 sonnets. For the first time in their history, we endeavor to arrange them, so far as current scholarship allows, in the order in which they were written."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: All the Sonnets of Shakespeare?
When Did Shakespeare Start Writing Sonnets?
Writing Sonnets in the Plays
The Originality of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Never before Imprinted (1609)
Setting Forth Shakespeare's Sonnets
Among His Private Friends'
His Name Is Will
About This Volume
How Have We Decided What to Include?
The Layout of this Volume
A Note on the Text
A Note on Abbreviations and Abstract Nouns
Some Suggestions for Further Reading
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
(All dates are conjectural.)
Early Sonnets
Sonnets 154 and 153 (pre-1582)
Sonnet 145 (1582)
1589-1595
From The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589
1591)
Sonnets about Venus and Adonis (1590
1593)
From Edward III (1592)
Sonnets 127
144 (1590
1595)
Sonnets 146
152 (1590
1594- 1595
From The Comedy of Errors (1594)
From Love's Labour's Lost (1594
From Romeo and Juliet (1594
Sonnets 61
77 (1594
Sonnets 87
103 (1594
1595-1597
Sonnets 1
60 (1595
1597)
From A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596)
1598
1600
From Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Sonnets 78
86 (1598
1600)
From Henry V (1599)
From As You Like It (1599)
1600
1609
Sonnets 104
126 (1600
1604)
From Troilus and Cressida (1602)
From All's Well That Ends Well (1605)
From Pericles (1608)
1610
1613
From Cymbeline (1610)
From All Is True, or Henry VIII (1613).
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: All the sonnets of Shakespeare
ISBN:
9781108490399
1108490395
OCLC:
1151892508

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