An Introduction To Shakespeares Poems
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Author | : Peter Hyland |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1996-10-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350318361 |
Peter Hyland provides a highly readable account of the historical, social and political pressures of Shakespeare's England and the material conditions under which his plays were written, including a comprehensive description of the development and status of the theatrical profession. Half of the book is given over to a survey of the plays and examines numerous controversial issues that arise when we ask precisely what we can 'know' about them. For those who are daunted by the volume or the impenetrable prose of much recent writing on Shakespeare, Hyland's book will be a stimulating introduction.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780198184317 |
'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.
Author | : Michael Schoenfeldt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139493485 |
Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that were formerly ignored or the source of scandal - the articulation of a fervent same-sex love, for example, or the incipient racism inherent in a hierarchy of light and dark. By engaging closely with Shakespeare's major poems - 'Venus and Adonis', 'Lucrece', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' - the Introduction demonstrates how much these extraordinary poems still have to say to us.
Author | : Peter Hyland |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-12-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230802400 |
An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; the Sonnets; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare as a sceptical voice within the turbulent social context in which Elizabethan professional poets had to work, and relates his poems to the tastes, values and political pressures of his time. Hyland also explores how Shakespeare's poetry can be of interest to twenty-first century readers.
Author | : John Dover Wilson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2007-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827464 |
This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets, and his plays. Fourteen leading international scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on all relevant topics: from Shakespeare's seminal role in the development of English poetry, the wide-ranging practice of his poetic form, and his enigmatic place in print and manuscript culture, to his immersion in English Renaissance politics, religion, classicism, and gender dynamics. With individual chapters on Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint, the Companion also includes chapters on the presence of poetry in the dramatic works, on the relation between poetry and performance, and on the reception and influence of the poems. The volume includes a chronology of Shakespeare's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139462393 |
This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
Author | : Robert Matz |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0786454032 |
Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.
Author | : Kurian Mattam |
Publisher | : Anamika Pub & Distributors |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sin in literature |
ISBN | : 9788174950048 |
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9781853264160 |
The sonnets in this collection divide into two parts; the first 126 are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious "Dark Lady". In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes two lengthy poems on classical themes.