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Sonnets

Sonnets( )
Author: Shakespeare, William
Introduction by: Orgel, Stephen
Editor: Evans, G. Blakemore
Series title:The New Cambridge Shakespeare Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-86118-2
Publication Date:Jun 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $76.99
Book Description:

For this second edition of The Sonnets, Stephen Orgel has written a new introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. The volume follows the 1609 quarto and retains the text prepared by G. Blakemore Evans, together with his detailed textual notes and line-by-line commentary.

Book Details
Pages:292
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.123 x 9.126 x 0.897 Inches
Book Weight:1.298 Pounds
Author Biography
Shakespeare, William (Author)
William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 Although there are many myths and mysteries surrounding William Shakespeare, a great deal is actually known about his life. He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, son of John Shakespeare, a prosperous merchant and local politician and Mary Arden, who had the wealth to send their oldest son to Stratford Grammar School.

At 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the 27-year-old daughter of a local farmer, and they had their first daughter six months later. He probably developed an interest in theatre by watching plays performed by traveling players in Stratford while still in his youth. Some time before 1592, he left his family to take up residence in London, where he began acting and writing plays and poetry.

By 1594 Shakespeare had become a member and part owner of an acting company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, where he soon became the company's principal playwright. His plays enjoyed great popularity and high critical acclaim in the newly built Globe Theatre. It was through his popularity that the troupe gained the attention of the new king, James I, who appointed them the King's Players in 1603. Before retiring to Stratford in 1613, after the Globe burned down, he wrote more than three dozen plays (that we are sure of) and more than 150 sonnets. He was celebrated by Ben Jonson, one of the leading playwrights of the day, as a writer who would be "not for an age, but for all time," a prediction that has proved to be true.

Today, Shakespeare towers over all other English writers and has few rivals in any language. His genius and creativity continue to astound scholars, and his plays continue to delight audiences. Many have served as the basis for operas, ballets, musical compositions, and films. While Jonson and other writers labored over their plays, Shakespeare seems to have had the ability to turn out work of exceptionally high caliber at an amazing speed. At the height of his career, he wrote an ave



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