Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Rape of Lucrece
Author: William ShakespeareSonnets
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443441554
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Shakespeare's Language
Author: Frank KermodePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374527741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry
Author: Patrick CheneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Canonising Shakespeare
Author: Emma DepledgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108670377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.
William Shakespeare and John Donne
Author: Angelika ZirkerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526133318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama.
The Rape of Lvcrece
Author: Thomas HeywoodCaptive Victors
Author: Heather DubrowPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Drawing both on the tenets of classical rhetoric and on contemporary critical theory, Heather Dubrow here offers a bold and persuasive reading of Shakespeare's nondramatic poems. She calls into question prevailing critical views of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and the sonnets and asserts that in these poems Shakespeare uses rhetoric with great subtlety and force to effect characterizations as rich in psychological and moral complexities as those found in the plays.
Lucrece and Brutus
Author: Madeleine de ScudéryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781649590220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"The story of the chaste matron Lucretia as told from a feminist perspective by 17th-century French novelist Madeleine de Scudéry in eleven pieces of writing, most of them extracts, from three of her works"--
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9780679417415
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he left behind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchy of world literature. The strikingly modern sonnets–intimate, baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawn from classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by a poem like “The Phoenix and the Turtle”–permanently deepen our understanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of our greatest poet. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)