Shakespeare's Sonnets And A Lover's Complaint - Couverture rigide

Shakespeare, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1347772502 ISBN 13 : 9781347772508

Editeur : Palala Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Introduction One of Shakespeare smost amazing gifts is his powet of inspiring with new life and interest a perfectly commonplace topic. Beethoven will sometimes take a theme so bare that you wonder at his wasting a thought on it the bass it may be of a cadence, or three notes of a diatonic scale and weave it straightway into a texture of unexpected and incomparable beauty: Shakespeare in like manner will take some familiar fact of human nature and by a fresh turn of idea or a fresh adjustment of relations reveal in it an unforeseen depth of purpose and significance. His most memorable scenes are often those which deal with simplest issues, his most memorable lines those which tell a plain thing in plain words: with the whole palette at his command he lays the foundation of his design upon a scheme of primary colours. Now there is one topic which is as old as romance itself: that in which two men bound to one another by ties of friendship or service fall under the attraction of the same woman. It is the theme ofT ristan and of Lancelot, it points the temptation-scene inS ir Gawayn, it has formed the plot of a thousand novels and the subject of a thousand lyrics.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Beautiful, poignant, and intriguing, they describe the poet's passionate friendship with a young man, his friend's seduction by the poet's own mistress, his friend's relationship with a rival poet, and most famously, Shakespeare's humiliated infatuation with the Dark Lady, `a woman coloured ill', who, far from being the marble-hearted femme fatale of fashionable sonnet sequences, is `the bay where all men ride'. These 154 poems have aroused speculation ever since they were written: who are the poet's handsome friend, his rival, and the Dark Lady? Who is the mysterious Mr W. H., 'the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets', to whom the publisher dedicated them? Despite much laboured study on the subject, the poems have kept their secrets. The poems are presented here, with an informative introduction and in a freshly edited text, along with A Lover's Complaint and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1347772502
• ISBN 13: 9781347772508
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132