Sonnets Synopsis
A collection of the Bard's beautiful, and often surprising, poetry. In addition to his numerous dramatic and comedic masterpieces for the stage, William Shakespeare is also famed for his sonnets. These poems, usually consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter, address not only traditional themes of romantic love but also darker subjects including lust, hatred, and infidelity, and featuring a risque series referring to the poet's mysterious ';Dark Lady.' While the sonnet existed long before Shakespeare's time, he, as usual, put his own mark of genius on the form.</
About This Edition
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9781504063005 |
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5th May 2020 |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: |
Open Road Media |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
Poetry
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William Shakespeare Press Reviews
The great master who knew everything...an unspeakable source of delight-Charles Dickens
Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst... Shakespeare haunts our language-Independent
Shakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time-Peter Ackroyd
Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third-T.S. Eliot
Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself-Alexander Pope
About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in April, 1564. He was the third child, and eldest son, of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. Little is known of Shakespeare’s early life; but it is unlikely that a writer who dramatized such an incomparable range and variety of human kinds and experiences should have spent his early manhood entirely in placid pursuits in a country town. There is one tradition, not universally accepted, that he fled from Stratford because he was in trouble for deer stealing, and had fallen foul of Sir Thomas Lucy, the local magnate; another that he was for some time a schoolmaster.
When Shakespeare died fourteen of his plays had been separately published in Quarto booklets. In 1623 his surviving fellow actors, John Heming and Henry Condell, with the co-operation of a number of printers, published a collected edition of thirty-six plays in one Folio volume, with an engraved portrait, memorial verses by Ben Jonson and others, and an Epistle to the Reader in which Heming and Condell make the interesting note that Shakespeare’s ‘hand and mind went together, and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.’
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