All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

About this book

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. Explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases of every poem and dramatic extract illuminate the meaning of these sometimes challenging but always deeply rewarding witnesses to Shakespeare's inner life and professional expertise. Beautifully printed and elegantly presented, this volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Epigraph
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. About This Volume
  9. All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
  10. Early Sonnets
  11. 1589–1595
  12. 1594–1595
  13. 1595–1597
  14. 1598–1600
  15. 1600–1609
  16. 1610–1613
  17. Textual Notes
  18. All the Sonnets of Shakespeare: Literal Paraphrases
  19. Numerical Index of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609)
  20. Index of First Lines